82. UROTHECA. 181 
B. Five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields. 
Temporals 1+2; black above, with narrow 
bright transverse lines .............. 3. euryzona, p. 182. 
Temporals usually 1+1; red with black 
or black and yellow rings............ 4, elapoides, p. 182. 
Il. Eye separated from the labials by a series of suboculars ; scales 
WIEOMOR ZL FOWS!. Wanacse oaecns ea eee 5. bicincta, p. 184. 
1. Urotheca dumerilii. 
Urotheca dumerilii, Bir. in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Rept. 
p- 218, pl. xxvi. (1843). 
Dromicus dumerilii, Garm. Proce. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, 
p- 280. 
Eye moderate; snout short, truncate. Rostral just visible from 
above ; internasals half as long as prefrontals; frontal once and 
two thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end 
of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal as long as deep; two 
preoculars, with a small subocular below them; two postoculars ; 
temporals 14+ 2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the 
eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 
which are much shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 
Ventrals 128-153 ; anal divided. The tail of the type specimen is 
probably mutilated, hence the small number (42) of subcaudals. 
Brown above; a blackish lateral, streak, running along the outer 
ends of the ventrals ; lower parts orange. 
Total length 344 millim. 
Cuba. 
2. Urotheca lateristriga. 
Liophis lateristriga, Berth. Gétting. Anz. iii. 1859, p. 180; Jan, 
Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 303, and Icon. Gén. 18, pl. v. 
fiz. 2 (1866). 
Dromicus frenatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 278. 
multilineatus, Peters, 1. c. p. 279. 
nuntius, Jan, Icon, 24, pl. vi. fig. 1 (1867). 
lateristriga, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 103. : 
Ablabes decipiens, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 105, pl. xxxvil. 
fig. A (1893). 
Eye rather small; snout very short, rounded. Rostral much 
broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter 
than the prefrontals ; frontal about once and a half as long as broad, 
longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal nearly as long as deep (fused with the lower pre- 
ocular in one of the specimens in the collection) ; one or two prie- 
oculars, usually with a small subocular below; two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+1; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the 
eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 
which are nearly as long as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 
