214 COLUBRIDyE. 



q. 2 (V. 15G ; C. '^). Jalapa. F. D. Godman, E.'^q. 



r. (S (V. 157 ; C. 97). Jalapa. 



». Hgr. (V. 157; C. 100). Jalapa. Mr. IIo^^g■e [C.]. 



/-?/. J (V. 152; C. 98) & Cozumelld., Yuc- Mr. Gaumer [C.]. 



2 (V. 151; C. ?). atan. 



v-w. 2 (V. 145; C. ?) Sc Belize. J. Smith, E.^q. [P.]. 



Vff. (V. 144 ; C. 87). 



.r.'$ (V. 147; C.93). Honduras. 



8. Tropidonotus multimaculatus. 



AtomarcliiLS multimaculatus, Cope, Am. Nat. 1883, p. 1300. 

 Eutfienia multimaculata, Cope, Pruc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 188G, 

 p. 284. 



Snout long and compressed. Rostral broader than deep ; inter- 

 nasals longer than broad ; frontal narrow, Avith concave sides, the 

 anterior angles touching the superior prteoculars ; loreal longer than 

 deep ; two or three prae- and three postoculars ; temporals 1 + 3; upper 

 labials eight, low and rather long, fourth entering the eye. Scales 

 in 21 rows, all keeled except the outer row. Anal entire. Ashy 

 grey or brown above, uniform or with six or seven longitudinal 

 series of dark brown or rusty spots, or dark brown ocelli with rustj' 

 orange centres ; the spots of the median two or three rows some- 

 times united, forming short cross bars; yellowish inferiorly, the 

 shields with dark edges. 



Total length 708 millim. ; tail 171. 



New Mexico and Chihuahua, North Mexico. 



0. Tropidonotus rufopunctatus. 



Chilopouia rufopunctatum, Cope, Wheeler\i Hep. U.S. E.vplor. S>/rv. 



TV. lOOth Mer. v. p. 544, pi. xx. fig. 1 (1875). 

 Tropidonotus rufipunctatus, (rrrm. N. Am. Bept. p. 23 (1883). 

 Eutsenia rufopunctata, Cq^e, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 606. 



Ej'e large. Rostral large, obtuse, with prominent lateral and 

 posterior borders ; nasal single, long and rather narrow ; loreal 

 elongate : one prae- and three p6stoculars ; temporals 1 -|-3 : frontal 

 large, -with concave sides, in contact with the priipocular ; eight 

 upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye. Scales in 21 rows, 

 all except the first and second on each side strongly keeled. 

 Yentrals 177; anal entire; subcaudals 87. Light brown above, 

 the anterior half of the body vrith six rows of small, alternating 

 briijht rufous or orange spots : lower surfaces pale brownish grev. 



Total length 257 millim. ; tail 62. 



Southern Arizona. 



10. Tropidonotus pealii. 



Tropidonotus pealii. Tf. L. Sclater, Joitrn. As. Soc. Beny. Ix. 1891, 

 p. 241, pi. vi. Hg. 4. 



Eye moderate. Kostral just visible from above ; internasals 



