75. LIOPHIS. 141 
are much shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 
140-150 ; anal divided; subcaudals 85-106. Blackish above, with 
an interrupted yellow line or series of yellow spots on each side, 
commencing from the tip of the snout; upper lip white ; ventrals, 
subcaudals, and outer row of scales white, edged with black. 
Total length 655 millim.; tail 215. 
Caba. 
ec a(V. 14a; (C289). Cuba. M. Sallé [C.]. 
b-c. @ (V. 150, 148; Cuba. 
C. 90, 92). 
17. Liophis parvifrons. 
Dromicus fugitivus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 182 (1858). 
lineatus, part., Giinth. l.c. p. 154. 
—— parvifrons, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 79, and Proe. 
Amer. Philos, Soe. xviii. 1879, p. 275; Fischer, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. 
Anst. v. 1888, p. 40. 
protenus, Jan, Icon. G'én. 25, pl. ii. fig. 2 (1867). 
Leptophis frenatus, Fischer, Oster-Progr. Akad. Gymn. Hamb. 1883, 
p- 8, pl. —. figs. 9-11 *. 
Eye rather large; snout rather short. Rostral broader than deep, 
just visible from above; internasals as long as broad or a little 
broader than long, shorter than the pretrontals ; frontal 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 nearly as long as deep ; 
one prxe- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+1 or 1+2; eight upper 
labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; five lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than, the 
posterior. Scales in 19 (exceptionally 17) rows. Ventrals 145- 
165; anal divided; subcaudals 110-130. Length of tail 23 to 23 
times in the total length. Brown or dark olive above, with two 
light longitudinal streaks and a more or less distinct darker vertebral 
line ; the olive of the sides extending to the ends of the ventrals; 
upper lip and lower parts whitish, the labials, the gular region, 
and the anterior ventrals usually dotted with black. Specimen h 
uniform black. : 
Total length 670 millim. ; tail 250. 
Santo Domingo. 
a-b. 5 (V. 158, 156; C.123,120). Hayti. Zoological Society. 
eft,g. 2 (V. 152, 155, 155, 153; Hayti. Hr. Rolle [C.]. 
G6. 110, 114, ?, 112), & yg.(V. 
150; G. 128). 
h. 5 (V. 145; C. 123). S. Domingo. M. Sallé [C.]. 
t Oy. 165; C.?). — ? [Barbados]. 
* Through the kindness of Dr. F. Miiller, I have examined one of the type 
specimens, stated to be from Sierra Leone, preserved in the Basle Museum. 
