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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Museum. It was taken by Jose Steinbach near Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 

 The collector failed on his label to indicate the date of capture. It is a male. 



Counts and Measurements. 



Anal 1 



Scale-rows 15 



Gastrosteges 152 



Urosteges 24/24 



Upper labials 6 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 2 



Temporals 1.2 



Total length in mm. . . 

 Length of tail in mm. 



1, 

 218 

 22 



Genus Elaphe Fitzinger. 

 14. Elaphe corais (Boie). 



Coluber corais Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 537. 



Coluber corais Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, j). 31. 



The Carnegie Museum possesses three examples of this species (Nos. 143, 144, 

 and 149) all of which were captured by H. H. Smith, in the month of June at Bonda, 

 Province of Santa Marta, Colombia. No. 144 is a female, No. 149 is a male; the 

 sex of No. 143 I have been unable to determine. 



Counts and Measurements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 8(4.5) 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in mm 



Length of tail in mm 



15. Elaphe dichroa (Peters). 



Herpetodryas dichroa Peters, Mon. Berl. Akad., 18G3, p. 284. 

 Coluber dichrous Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 30. 



The only example of this species at present in the Museum is No. 329, which 

 was taken by J. D. Haseman at Entre Rios, Brazil, on June 4, 1908. It is a female. 



