326 COLUBRID. 
ocular short and broad; frontal hexagonal; parietal large, in 
contact with the fifth labial ; two small postoculars ; three temporals, 
the first between the fifth and sixth labials and the parietal; six 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth largest; three 
pairs of chin-shields. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 235; anal 
entire ; subcaudals 44. Silvery grey above, with a series of dark 
brown black-edged spots ; an elongate triangular dark patch on the 
parietals, pointing backwards ; a dark bar running back from the 
eye to the upper margin of the labials ; fore part of the head macu- 
lated with black ; lower surface silvery grey, much blotched with 
black. 
Total length 532 millim. ; tail 50. 
Florida. 
116. GEAGRAS. 
Geagras, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 141. 
Sphenocalamus, Fscher, Oster-Progr. Akad. Gymn. Hamb, 1883, 
p. 5. 
Maxillary teeth 12, very small, equal ; mandibular teeth very small, 
equal. Head not distinct from neck; snout much depressed, 
strongly projecting, with angular horizontal edge; eye very small, 
with round pupil; nostril between two large nasals and the inter- 
nasal; no loreal, posterior nasal in contact with the przocular. 
Body cylindrical, short; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 15 
rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. 
Mexico. 
1. Geagras redimitus. 
Geagras redimitus, Cope, l.¢., and Proc. Amer. Phiios. Soe. xxii. 1885, 
pelid. 
Sphenocalamus lineolatus, Fischer, 7. c. pl. —. figs. 3-5. 
Geophis redimita, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 92 (1893). 
Rostral very large, flat beneath, its upper portion convex and as 
long as its distance from the frontal; internasals broad, shorter 
than the prefrontals ; frontal large, a little longer than broad, longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than 
the parietals; supraocular narrow; one pre- and one postocular ; 
temporals 14+2; six upper labials, fourth bordering the eye, fifth 
in contact with the parietal ; two pairs of chin-shields, anterior in 
contact with the symphysial, posterior small. Scales in 15 rows. 
Ventrals 117-119; anal divided; subcaudals 25-3U. Pale reddish 
above, each scale on the anterior half of the body with a brown 
median streak ; head brown above, with two yellow longitudinal 
streaks meeting on the rostral; lower parts uniform yellowish. 
Total length 185 millim.; tail 25. 
Western Mexico. 
@ DAV, TAZ 50220), Mexico. L. Greening, Esq. [P.]. 
