36. RHINOCHEILUS—37. FICIMIA 777 
Mr. Lockington recorded this snake as having been 
collected by Mr. W. J. Fisher, “at or to the south of Mag- 
dalena Bay,” Lower California. The National Museum has 
specimens from Ensenada and Salt Slough. 
Genus 37. Ficimia 
Ficimia Gray, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 80 (type, olivacea). 
Gyalopion Core, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 243 (type, camum). 
The body is rather stout, with short tail. The head is 
but little distinct from the neck. The snout is acute and 
the rostral plate turns up at the tip so that its upper surface 
is concave. The internasals are very small and are separated 
by the rostral which extends back to the prefrontals. The 
nasal and first labial plates usually are united, a groove 
extending from the nostril to the second labial. There is no 
loreal. Frontal, supraocular and parietal plates are normal. 
One preocular. The scales are in seventeen rows, smooth, 
with pits. The anal is divided. The maxillary teeth are 
small, equal, not grooved. The eye is of moderate size, 
with round pupil. 
177. Ficimia cana (Cope) 
PuG-NOsED SNAKE 
Gyalopion canum Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 243 (type 
locality, Fort Buchanan, Arizona). 
Gyalopium canum Cork, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 36; Cougs, 
Surv. W. 1ooth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 624, pl. XVIII, figs. 2, 2a; 
Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, pp. 14, 88; Cope, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 603; Cope, Amer. Natu- 
ralist, Vol. XXX, 1896, p. 1014; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 
1898, 1900, p. 947; Ruruven, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 
XXIII, 1907, p. 587. 
Ficimia cana Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. VIII, 
1883, pp. 83, 161; BouLencer, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. IT, 
1894, p. 272; Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 84; 
