“75. LIOPHIS, 143 
a blackish streak on the middle of the head and along the anterior 
part of the back and a blackish lateral streak on the head and body, 
passing through the eye ; lips and gular region yellowish, variegated 
with. brown; belly uniform yellowish. JFull-grown specimens 
nearly uniform brown. 
Total length 410 millim.; tail 125. 
Jamaica. 
a, b-c. Hgr. $ (V. 132; Bluefields, Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 
C. 110) & yg. (V. 131, (Types.) 
134; CO. 97, 109). 
dae (V. 182; C. 70), Jamaica. R. Heward, Esq. [P.]. 
e, f. Hgr. ¢ (V. 133; C. W. Indies. 
LOS) ase ye, CVe130); 
C. 107). 
20. Liophis temporalis. 
Dromicus temporalis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 870; Garm. 
Proce. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 281. 
Mouth very inferior ; rostral plate prominent, but barely visible 
from above; nasals distinct ; internasals small ; frontal broad ; 
loreal confluent with preocular; one or two postoculars; seven 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; chin-shields equal. 
Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 167; anal divided ; (tail mutilated). 
Chocolate-brown above, with a yellow lateral streak, edged with 
blackish above, running along the sutures of the two outer rows of 
scales ; a blackish plumbeous band along the outer row of scales 
and the outer ends of the ventrals ; indications of a yellow collar ; 
belly yellow. 
Length of head and body 430 millim. 
Cuba. 
°21. Liophis flavilatus. 
Dromicus flavilatus, Cope, Proc. Ac, Philad. 1871, p. 222, and Proc. 
Am. Philos, Soc, xiv. 1877, p. 65; Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 58 
(1883). 
Closely allied to Z. callilemus, but scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 
126; subcaudals 77. Colour above a rich golden brown, the scales 
of the two lower rows on each side broadly gold-edged; head dark 
brown, darkest behind, with numerous but obscure paler vermicu- 
lations ; sides of head paler, with a reddish-brown band from the 
rostral plate through the eye to the middle of the last labial ; labials 
whitish, with black dots on the posterior ; below white, lower labials 
sparsely black-dotted ; ‘a pair of pale dots on the common occipital 
suture. 
S.E. United States (N. Carolina to Florida). 
