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sometimes edged above and below by a series of whitish dots, along 
each side of the posterior half of the body to the end of the tail; 
sometimes two other dark lines on the posterior part of the back, 
confluent into one on the tail; lower parts white, uniform or black- 
spotted. 
Total length 750 millim. ; tail 140. 
Ecuador. 
A. Belly unspotted. 
@ 27(V.1158 ©. 60). Olalla, 8490 ft. EK. Whymper, Esq. 
[C.]. 
b. d (V. 152; C. 66). Quito. 
e-d. g (V.151; C.61)& W. Ecuador, Mr, Fraser [C.]. 
@ (V. 155; C. 62). 
B. Belly black-spotted. 
e. 9 (V. 156; C. 57). Intac. Mr. Buckley [C.}. 
Fan G(s lads ©. 90); Guayaquil. Mr, Fraser [C.]. 
5. Liophis fraseri. (Puare VI. fig. 2.) 
Eye moderate ; snout rather elongate. Rostral twice as broad as 
deep, just visible from above ; internasals as broad as long, a little 
shorter than the preefrontals; frontal nearly twice as long as broad, 
as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal a little deeper than long ; one pra- and two post- 
oculars; temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior, Scales in 
17 rows. Ventrals 160; anal divided; subcaudals 70. Pale 
olive above, with small black spots; a dark streak on each side of 
the head, passing through the eye; upper lip white; four black 
streaks along the posterior part of the body, the two upper confluent 
into one on the tail; lower parts white, with scattered small black 
spots. 
Total length 690 millim. ; tail 150. 
Ecuador. 
a. 2 (V. 160; C. 70). W. Ecuador. Mr. Fraser [C. ]. 
6. Liophis pecilogyrus. 
Coluber M-nigrum, Raddi, Mem. Soc. Ital. Modena, xviii. (Fis.) 
1820, p. 338. 
? Coluber alternans, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 104 (1823). 
Oot pecilogyrus, Wied, Beitr. Nat. Bras. i. p. 371, and Abbild, 
(1825). 
doliatus (non L.), Wied, Beitr. p. 368, and Abbild. 
bicolor, Reuss, Mus. Senckenb. i. 1834, p. 145, pl. viii. fig. 1. 
Coronella merremii, part., Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 58 (1837). 
Liophis merremii, part., Dum. § Bibr. vil. p. 708 (1854); Giinth. 
Cat. p. 44 (1858) ; Hensel, Arch. f. Nat. 1868, p. 324. 
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