Colorados, 4 km E Rio Baba Bridge, ca 600 m. 
Epicrates Wagler, 1830. 
1816 Draco ocellatus Oken, Lehrb. Naturg. 3:272. 
Erythrolamprus Wagler, 1830. 
Erythrolamprus aesculapii aesuculapii (Linnaeus), fide Cunha & 
Nascimento, 1980, Bol. Mus. Paraense Emilio Goeldi 
CZo1o Lis) FLO.225': 
1863 Erythrolamprus Aesculapii [Aesculapii] Jan. 
1854 Erythrolamprus baupertuisii D., B. & D. 
1959 Erythrolamprus baileyi Roze, Acta Biol. Venezuela 2'3'5'2'6'. 
Type-locality: Caripito, Estado Monagas, Venezuela. 
Distribution: northern South America from coastal Venezuela 
to Amazonia. 
Erythrolamprus baupertuisii = E. a. aesculapii. 
Eunectes Wagler, 1830. 
E. deschauenseei Dunn & Conant. Distribution: also French 
Guiana (Hoogmoed, 1982, Mem. Inst. Butantan 46:219-54). 
Ficimia Gray. 
Key, descriptions and distributions of all species in Hardy, 1975, 
J. Herpetol . 9213368". 
Distribution: southern Texas through eastern Mexico to Yucatan 
Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize and northern Honduras. 
Content: six species, five estralimital. 
Geophis Wagler, 1830. 
Key to Costa Rican and Panamanian species in Savage, 1981, Ibid. 
(3):549-553. 
1979 G. alasukai Gasc & Rodrigues, Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 
(Paris)(4)1(4):1122. Type-locality: French Guiana, Trois 
Sauts. Comment: junior synonym of Atractus flammigerus, 
fide Hoogmoed, 1980, Ibid. 175:20. 
1981 G. downsi Savage, Copeia (3):549. Type-locality: Costa Rica, 
Puntarenas, 4 km S San Vito de Joba, 1200 om. 
Distribution: premontane rain forest of Cordillera 
Costena, Costa Rica, 1100-1200m. 
G. cancellatus Smith. Distribution: also Guatemala (MVZ). 
Helicops Wagler, 1830. 
Key couplet substitutions, fide Rossman, 1973, HISS News 1:189-191. 
4. Dorsum striped...5 
Dorsum spotted or blotched...6 
5. Venter heavily pigmentes...carinicaudus 
Venter light or with faint flecks...modestus 
6. Dorsum > 4 rows of blotches.../7 
Dorsum 3 rows of large spots...gomesi 
H. hagmanni Roux. Distribution: Colombia, Brasil and probably 
Peru (Rossman, 1975, Herpetologica 31:414-18). 
H. pastazae Shreve. Distribution: also Peru and Venezuela 
