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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Counts and Measurements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials [ 8(4.5) 



Preoculars : 1 



Postoculars 2 



Temporals 1,2 



Total length in mm I 434 



Length of tail in mm. I 85 



* End of tail lost. 



38. Liophis poecilogynis (Wied). 



Coluber poecilogyrus Wied, Beitr. Naturgesch. Bras., I, 1825, p. 371, Plate. 

 Liophis poecilogynis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 131. 



There are fourteen specimens at hand, which arc referable to this species. 

 Seven of them come from the Provincia del Sara, Bolivia, and were collected by 

 Jose Steinbach, who neglected except in two cases to indicate the date of capture. 

 They are listed as follows: 



No. 7, cf , Provincia del Sara, Bohvia, J. Steinbach, Jan., 1912. 



No. 53, 9 , Provincia del Sara, Bolivia, J. Steinbach, Jan., 1913. 



No. 105, 9 , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, J. Steinbach. 



No. 106, 9 , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, J. Steinbach. 



No. Ill, cf , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, J. Steinbach. 



No. 113, cf , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, J. Steinbach. 



No. 274, cf , South America, LeBoutelicr Collection. 



No. 275, 9 , South America, LeBoutelier Collection. 



No. 277, c?, South America, LeBoutelicr Collection. 



No. 312, cf , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, J. Steinbach. 



No. 332, c?, Entre Rios, Brazil, J. D. Haseman, June 4, 1908. 



No. 333, cf , Cidade de Matto Grosso, J. D. Haseman, July 1, 1909. 



No. 351, cf , Entre Rios, Brazil, J. D. Haseman, June 4, 1908. 



No. 359, 9 , Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil, J. D. Haseman, March 22, 1908. 



Specimens No. 7, 53, 105, 106, 113, and 312, from the Province del Sara, lio- 

 livia, are all very dark on the upper surface, and uniformly colored. The edges 

 of the dorsal and lateral scales are black, the centers olive. When the surface of a 



