griffin: ophidia from south America in carnegie museum 219 



from lip to lip just behind the eyes. This band covers most of the fifth and sixth 

 upper labials, the upper postocular, the anterior temporal, the back of the supra- 

 oculars and frontal, and the anterior third of the parietals. The center of the 

 chin is light. 



There are two specimens in the collection, cataloged as follows: 

 C. M. No. 206, type, cf, Bonda, Colombia, H. H. Smith coll., June, 1901. 

 C. M. No. 207, paratype, 9 , Bonda, Colombia, H. H. Smith coll., June, 1901. 



Counts and Measurements. 



(No. 206.) (No. 207.) 



Anal 1/1 1/1 



Scale-rows 15 15 



Gastrosteges 185 204 



Urosteges 22/22 17/17 . 



Upper labials .7(3.4) 7(3.4) 



Preoculars 1 1 



Postoculars 2 2 



Temporals 1,1 1, 1 



Total leng-th in mm 366 318 



Length of tail in mm 30 17 



Sets of annuU 7 + 1 8+1 



79. Elaps mipartitus Dumeril & Bibron. 



Elaps mipartitus Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen., VII, 1854, p. 1220. 

 Elaps mipartitus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, III, 1896, p. 431. 



C. M. No. 208, 9 , Valparaiso, Colombia, H. H. Smith, April, 1901. 



C. M. No. 209, 9 , Las Nubes, Colombia, H. H. Smith, December, 1901. 



Our specimens differ from Boulenger's diagnosis is not having the anterior 

 temporal scale noticeably narrowed. In No. 209 the anterior and posterior tem- 

 poral shields are fused into one. In both specimens the frontal shield lacks a 

 little of being as long as its distance from the tip of the snout. 



The head is black to back of the eyes, the black patch including all or nearly 

 all of the fourth upper labial, and half of the supraoculars and frontal. The 

 yellow band extends to the posterior ends of the parietals. The chin is yellow 

 with scattered, irregularly shaped, dark flecks. The following is copied from the 

 field label: 



"This snake when alive has the head and tail almost precisely alike — bright 

 red. It coils up with its head underneath its tail and threatens with its tail." 



