74. DROMICUS. 135 
the spots vary exceedingly, and may be very small or so large as to 
nearly cover the ground-colour ; a dark band on each side of the 
head, passing through the eye, widening on the temple, and some- 
times continued along the body ; lower parts yellow, more or less 
dotted with brown ; in some specimens the hinder part of the body 
and the tail blackish brown. 
Total length 1230 millim. ; tail 270. 
West Indies (Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Saba, St. 
Eustatius, St. Katts, Nevis). 
A. Scales in 23 rows. 
a. 6 (V.210; C.114). St. Eustatius. Commodore Markham |P. }. 
b-h. 9 (V. 210, 215; C. St. Kitts. — Hogan, Esq. [P.]. 
97,97), her. (V.211,215, 
3. 204 C2 91-95; 2, 
100), & yg. (V. 218; C. 
94 
i. 2 (V.214; 0.96). _—_ St. Kitts. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 
be O (¥. 201-NC..99)., St.Bartholomew. Mus. Comp. Zoology | E.}. 
l. 6 (V. 214; C. 19). Nevis. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 
m. 2°(V. 2173 €..98). —-? 
B. Scales in 21 rows. 
nm. 6 (V. 202; C.112). Anguilla. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 
(One of the types of A. cinereus.) 
op. & (V. 208; C.?) & Anguilla. W. R. Elliott (C.]. 
her. (V. 205; ©. 114). 
8. Dromicus anomalus. 
Zamenis anomalus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1865, p. 282. 
Dromicus (Alsophis) anomaius, Lvscher, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss, Anst. 
v. 1888, p. 37. 
Eye moderate; snout projecting, rather pointed. Rostral nearly 
as deep as broad, well visible from above; internasals as long as 
broad, a little shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal once and one 
third to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or shorter 
than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal longer than deep; one~pre- and two postoculars; a large 
subocular usually separating the eye from the fifth and sixth labials ; 
temporals 14+2; eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye, third 
sometimes just touching the eye; five lower labials in contact with 
the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales 
in 21 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate laterally, 205-219 ; anal 
divided; subcaudals 118-130. Length of tail 33 to 4+ times in the 
total length. Pale brown above, the head-shields and scales edged 
with darker; young with numerous, more or less distinct, irregular 
dark cross bands; ventrals yellowish, with the outer ends brown. 
Total length 1950 millim. ; tail 550. ~ 
Santo Domingo, 
