MEMOIES 



OF THE 



CAENEGIE MUSEUM. 



VOL. VII. NO. 3. 



A CATALOG OF THE OPHIDIA FROM SOUTH AMERICA AT PRESENT 



(JUNE, 1916) CONTAINED IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES. 



By Lawrence Edmonds Griffin. 



The recent reptilia in the Carnegie Museum represent collections made at 

 various times and places by collectors, who incidentally in connection with other 

 undertakings preserved such specimens belonging to this class as came to hand. 

 No systematic collecting of these animals was undertaken by any of the expeditions 

 which have gone out from the Carnegie Museum to the American tropics, except 

 by Mr. G. A. Link, Sr., in the Isle of Pines. The collection made by Mr. Link 

 has already been reported upon in the Annals of this Museum.^ Although the 

 collections have been acquired for the most part as the result of somewhat desultory 

 collecting, they nevertheless include a considerable number of interesting species, 

 some of which appear to be new to science. 



Many specimens were preserved by Mr. John D. Haseman during his ex- 

 tensive travels in South America from 1907 to 1910. For a brief outline of the 

 journeyings of Mr. Haseman the reader is referred to the articles published in the 

 seventh volume of the Annals of the Carnegie Museum.- Mr. Haseman went to 



' "The Reptiles and Amphibians of the Isle of Pines." By Thomas Barbour, Annals Carnegie Musemm, 

 Vol. X, 1916, pp. 297-308, PI. XXVIII. 



^W. J. Holland, "The Carnegie Museum Expedition to Central South America, 1907-1910," Annals 

 of the Carnegie Museum, VII, 1910-1911, pp. 283-286. 



Jolm D. Haseman, "A Brief Report upon the Expedition of the Carnegie Museum to Central South 

 America," I. c, pp. 287-299. 



C. H. Eigermiann, "A List of Localities at which Mr. Haseman Collected," I. c, pp. 299-314. 



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