242 COLTTBRID^. 



C. Scales in 25 rows. 



f-'J' 2 (V. 149, 146; Freetowu, Sierra Leoiie. R. Dinzey, Esq. [C.'J. 

 C. GO, 64). 



D. Scales in 27 rows. 



h. $ (V. 152; C. ?). Freetown, Sierra Leone. R, Dinzey, Esq. [C.]. 



44. Tropidonotus anoscopus. ' '^^ n- ^^^ 



Tropidonotus anoscopus, Cope, Proe. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 299. 

 Natrix anoscopus, Cope, Proe. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 673. 



Snout short, obtuse. Rostral shield twice as broad as deep ; 

 internasals small, very narrow anteriorly ; frontal elongate ; loreal 

 deeper than long ; one prse- and two postoculars ; a single anterior 

 temporal ; eye separated from the labials by a series of small sub- 

 oculars ; nine upper labials. Scales in 23 rows, all keeled except 

 those of the first row. Ventrals 143 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 73. 

 Dark plumbeous brown above, with blackish vertical bars, alternate 

 upon each side ; beneath dirty brownish white, each shield brown at 

 the base. 



Total length 355 millim. ; tail 90. 



Cuba. 



45. Tropidonotus fasciatus. 



Coluber fasciatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 378 (1766) ; Cateahi/, Nat. Hist. 



Carol, ii. pi. Iviii. (1771) ; Baud. Rept. vii. p. 184 (1803) ; Rarl. 



Med. Phys: Res. p. 120 (1835). 

 sipedou, Linn. t. c. p. 379 ; Daud. t. c. p. 148 ; Harl. I. c. 



p. 114 ; Storer, Rep. Fish. ^- Rept. Mass. p. 228 (1839). 



erythrogaster, Catesby, t. c. pl. xlvi. 



porcatus, Latr. Rept. iv. p. 82, pl. — (1802) ; Daud. t. c. 



p. 204; Harl. I. c. p. 119. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535 ; Holhr. N. Am. Herp. 



iv. p. 25, pl. V. (1842) ; Bum. ^ Bihr. vii. p. 566 (1854) ; Giinth. 



Cat. p. 76 (1858) ; /«?*, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 221, 



and Icon. G6n. 26, pl. iii. (1868). 



porcatus, Boie, I. c. 



Coluber cauda-schistosus, Harl. I. c. p. 124. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus, part., Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 323 (1837). 

 Coluber pcecilogaster, Wied, Reise N. Am. i. p. 106 (1839). 

 Tropidonotus sipedon, Holhr. I. c. p. 29, pl. vi. ; Dekay, N. York 



Faun., Rept. p. 42, pl. xiv. fig. 31 (1842) ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. 



p. 25, pl. ii. fig. 3 (1883). 



erythrogaster, Holbr. I. c. p. 33, pl. vii. 



niger, Holbr. I. c. p. 37, pl. ix. 



rhombifer, Halloio. Proe. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 177 ; Cope, Proe. 



Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 298 ; Jan, II. cc. p. 222, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 transversus, Hallow. I. c. ; Garm. Bull, Essex List. xxiv. 1892, 



p. 103. 

 Nerodia sipedon, Baird 8f Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 38 (1853) ; 



H. Garm. Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 209. 

 fasciata, Baird ^ Gir. I. c. p. 39. 



