BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 5. 28 



Kullberg a fine specimen of a typical Oxyrhopus cloelia but 

 with ä? pairs of subcandals only. Thns, it is clear that this 

 species lives so far sonth as in that country and also that 

 its snbcaudals sometimes are fewer than stated by Boulenger 

 (the tail is not nintilated). I therefore believe that the spe- 

 oies Oxifrhojius waculatiis Boul. is only a colour-variety of 

 the typical Oxyrhopus cloelia (Daud.). 



Oxyrhopus carinatus (Schneid;). 



Two Brasilian species, belonging to the mentioned (!ollec- 

 tions from Dr. Touzet at Rio Janeiro, ditfer froin the descrip- 

 tion in Cat. of Snakes by having (»9—71 snbcaudals instead 

 of 80-97. 



Erythrolamprus fissidens (Gntr.). i 



There is in the museum a tine colour-variety of this 

 snake, which I have not seen mentioned before. The colour 

 above is uniform brown-black with the two light narrow 

 lines, which we lind in the typical form only above the eyes 

 and on the upper face of the neck, extending över the whole 

 back of the snake as far as to the point of the tail, where 

 they confluent into each other. Lower parts and the 2\ 2 

 outer rows of scales white. The head below sprinkled with 

 brown. On both sides there is one prseocular with a small 

 subocular below. The number of the ventrals is greater than 

 stated in Boulenger's Cat. of Snakes, 157 instead of 117— 140, 

 but in all other respects the specimen is a typical Erythro- 

 lanq^ruf} fissidens (Gntr.). 



The snake is collected by Dr. C. Bowallius 1883 in Cen- 

 tral America, R. Omotepe, Nicaragua. 



Miodon gabonensis (A. Dum.). 



In the last edition of Cntalogue of Snakes in the British 

 Museum we lind stated three Miodon-s])ecies (part III, p. 251, 

 252), all from the West Africa, being very closely allied to 

 each other, viz. 31. gabonensis (A. Dum.), M. coUaris (Peters), 



