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YI, formula (O — 1); supralabials seven, the third and 

 fourth entering the eye ; infralabials seven, first pair not 

 touching behind the mental; anterior geneials larger than 

 the posterior, in contact with four infralabials. 



Coloration. Abdomen with forty-one transverse light 

 spots, covering two to two and one half ventrals, these 

 continue on the sides so as to cover one scale in the 

 first row ; these spots are separated by from three to three and 

 one half ventrals. Tail with traces of two dark cross bands. 



Anatomy. Diameter of the eye 0.8 mm., distance from 

 the mouth 1.5 mm. Maxillary bone extending forwards 

 beyond the palatine; no small maxillary teeth. Postfrontal 

 bone absent. 



Notes. The jar containing this specimen bore a printed 

 label giving the locality as the "Antilles", and the col- 

 lector as M. Kerondren. In the Catalogue of the Collec- 

 tion the original entery reads "■Elaps coUaris Schlegel" 

 and the locality "Manille". This was in the handwriting 

 of a copyist in the time of Dumeril. Later the "-coUans 

 Schlegel" was crossed through, and "-gastrodelus D. & B." 

 written above them. The "Manille" was written over by 

 "Antilles". This alteration in the records was in the 

 handwriting of M. Braconnier. 



In this species the anterior temporal is normally absent. 

 Occasionally it is present as in this specimen, and in the 

 one figured by Jan in Icon. Gen. 43, pi. II, fig. 2. 



U. S. F. S. Albatross, 

 Saus a 1 i 1 , California, 

 May 30th, 1913. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXX"V. 



