griffin: ophidia from south America in carnegie museum 



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Family BOID.E Gray. 



Genus Boa^ Linnaeus. 



3. Boa cooki (Gray). 



Corallus cookii Gray, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 42. 

 Corallus cookii Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, I, 1893, p. 99. 



The five specimens in the collection are fisted as foUows: 



No. 137, d", Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft., Smith coU., June. 



No. 139, d", Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft.. Smith coU., Sept. 6 (in house). 



No. 142, d", Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft.. Smith cofi., June. 



No. 204, 9 , Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft.. Smith cofi., July. 



No. 1860, cf , South America (Colombia, H. H. Smith). 



4. Boa hortulana (Linnaeus). 



Coluher hortulanus Linn^us, Mus. Ad. Frid., 1754, p. 37. 

 Boa hortulana Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, I, p. 374. 

 Corallus hortulanus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, I, 1893, p. 101. 



The two specimens in our possession are the following: 



No. 370, cf , Entre Rios, Brazil, Haseman cofi., June 4, 1908. 



No. 371, Entre Rios, Brazil, Haseman cofi., June 4, 1908 (head only). 



Counts and Measurements. 



(No. 370) 



Anal 1 



Scale-rows 53 



Gastrosteges 266 



Urosteges 109 



Total length in mm 1,616 



Length of tail in mm 300 



*See Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 184. 



