134 COLUBRID &. 
8. Liophis melanotus. 
Coluber melanotus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 534 (1802). 
raninus, Merr. Tent. p. 106 (1820). 
vittatus, Hallow. Proce. Ac. Philad. 1845, p. 242. 
Dromicus melanotus, Giinth. Cat. p. 183 (1858); Garm. Proc. Am. 
Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p- 282. 
Liophis vittatus, Cope, Proc, Ac, Philad. 1859, p. 297. 
melanonotus, Cope, Proc, Ac, Philad. 1860, p. 255, 
melanotus, Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 298, and 
Icon. Gén. 18, pl. iii. fig. 4 (1866). 
Eye moderate; snout short. Rostral nearly twice as broad as 
deep, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long, shorter 
than the prefrontals; frontal once and two thirds to twice as long 
as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long 
as or a little shorter than the parietals: loreal deeper than long ; 
one pre- and two postoculars ; terapemal: 1+2; eight upper labials, 
fourth and fifth entering the eye: four or five lower labials in 
contact with the anterior pipet which are as long as or a 
little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 
obtusely angulate laterally, 144-157; anal divided; subcaudals 
53-65. Length of tail 43 to 5 times in the total length. Yel- 
lowish ; vertebral region (4 or 5 scales wide) black, with a white 
and black streak on each side; the vertebral stripe narrower on the 
nape, and sometimes broken up into spots ; the dorso-lateral streaks 
usually broken up into spots on the nape; head olive above, with 
a black lateral streak passing through the eye; upper lip and lower 
parts uniform yellowish white. 
Total length 610 millim. ; tail 140. 
Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada. 
a-d. 3 (V. 148, 151; C. Rosario de Cucuta, Mr. C. Webber [C.]. 
64, 61)& @ (V. 151, — Colombia. 
150; C. 65, 65). 
e. 2 (V. 144: C. 58). Cartagena, Capt. Barth [ P.]. 
f. do (V. 148; C. 57). Sta. Marta. 
Bev. 144; C. 61). Colombia. 
h. 3 vas 153 ; C. 53). Venezuela. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 
1 27 (V, 145; ©. 56). Tobago. W. J. A. Ludlam, 
Esq. [P.]. 
9. Liophis almadensis. 
Natrix almadensis, Wagl. in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 30, pl. x. fig. 3 
(1824). 
Liophis conirostris, Giinth. Cat. p. 46 (1858), and Zool. Rec. 1866, 
p. 126. 
almadensis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Pee. 1862, p. 78; Boettg. 
Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturw. lviii. 1885, p- 228 ; ; Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. 
N. H. (5) xv. 1885, p. 194, & xviii. 1886, p.4 452. 
Lygophis conirostris, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1862 , p. 16. 
Liophis wagleri, part., Jan, Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys, ii. 1863, p. 297, 
and Icon. Gén. 18, pl. iii. ‘figs. 2 & 3 (1866), 
? Liophis verecundus, Jan, Arch, Zool, Anat. Phys, ii. p. 300. 
