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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Counts and Measueements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 8(4.5) 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in mm 



Length of tail in mm 



(No. 27.) 

 1/1 



17 

 146 



76/76 



8(4.5) 



1 



2 



1,2 

 612 

 162 



40. Liophis viridis Giinther. 

 LiopMs viridis Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), IX, 1862, p. 58, PL IX, fig. 2. 

 Liophis viridis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 135. 



The specimens in the Carnegie Museum are fisted as foUows: 



No. 281, cf , South America, LeBoutefier cofiection. 



No. 316, 9 , Lagoa de Joao Pereira, Brazil, J. D. Haseman cofi., December 23, 1907. 

 No. 344, 9 , Bom Jesus de Lapa, Bahia, Brazil, J. D. Haseman coU. 

 No. 344 is defective, having in part lost its tail. 



Counts and Measurements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in mm. . . 

 Length of tail in mm. . 



* Tip of tail lost. 



Genus Lystrophis Cope. 



41. Lystrophis histricus (Jan). 



Heterodon histricus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys., II, 1863, p. 224. 

 Lystrophis histricus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 152. 



The only specimen of this species in the possession of the Carnegie Museum 

 (No. 331) was taken at Sao Matias, Bolivia, by J. D. Haseman, May 7, 1909. It 

 is a male. 



Snout, to level of eyes, brown; a darker brown band across the eyes, followed 

 by another, which is interrupted in the middle, and ends on each side back of the 



