140 COLUBRID. 
Hye rather large; snout moderate. Rostral broader than deep, 
just visible oar above ; internasals a little broader than long, 
shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal twice as long as broad, as 
long as or longer than its distance from the end of the snout, a little 
shorter than the parietals; loreal deeper than long; one pree- and 
two postoculars ; temporals 142; eight upper labials, fourth and 
fifth entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 
Veutrals obtusely angulate laterally, 185-200; anal divided; 
subcaudals 80-105. Length of tail 32 to 4 times in the total 
length. Black and olive or black and yellow above, usually with a 
light streak along each side of the* hinder part of the body, some- 
times extending to the nape; upper lip and lower parts yellow ; 
usually a black : spot or border at the outer end of each ventral. 
Total length 830 millim. ; tail 220. 
West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia). 
a-b, 2 (V. 187, 188; C.97,?). Guadeloupe. 
. © (V. 192, 188, 196; C. St. Lucia. Miss Alexander [P.]. 
88, 89, 88) & her. (V. 193; 
C. 82). 
(VV. 190-20. 84). St. Lucia. Mus. Comp. Zool. [ E.]. 
(One of the types of Dromicus ornatus.) * 
h. $(V. 191; C. 86). St. Lucia. G. A. Ramage, Esq. 
° C. . 
aoe (V.189 °C. 86). St. Lucia. nese Collection. 
k. 6 (V.194;.C. 85). St. Lucia. 
lg (V.194; o P): Caracas (??). 
m. 9 (V. 191; C. 85). p (Type of Coluber ornatus.) 
m. 9 (V. 189; C. 82). —? Dr. Giinther [P.]. 
0. 6 (V. 200; C. 86). —> 
p. Skull. Martinique. 
16.’ Liophis andrez. 
Herpetodryas cursor, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 199 (1837). 
Dromicus cursor, Bibron, in R. de la Sagra, Hist. nee Erp. p. 225, 
pl. xxviii. (1843). 
cursor, part., Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 650 (1854); Jan, Icon. Gén. 
23, pl. v. ‘fie, 2 '(1867). 
a fugitivus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 182 (1858) ; Cope, Proc. Am. 
Philos, Soe, xi. 1869, p. 164. 
Liophis andrew, Reinh. §& Liitk. Vidensk, Meddel. 1862, p. 214; 
Bouleng. Proc, Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 354. 
Dromicus fugitivus, Gundlach, B ‘p. Cubana, p. 79 (1880). 
cubensis, Garm. Proc. ‘Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 281. 
Eye rather large; snout moderate. Rostral broader than deep, 
just visible from above; internasals as long as broad, shorter than 
the prefrontals; frontal twice as long as broad, longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal 
deeper than long; one pree- and two postoculars; temporals 1+2; 
eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; four 
or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
