36. RHINOCHEILUS—37. FICIMIA 



Mr. Lockington recorded this snake as having been 

 collected by Mr. W. J. Fisher, "at or to the south of Mag- 

 dalena Bay," Lower California. The National Museum has 

 specimens from Ensenada and Salt Slough. 



Genus 37. Ficimia 



Ficimia Gray, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 80 (type, olivacea). 

 Gyalofion Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 24-3 (type, canum). 



The body is rather stout, with short tail. The head is 

 but little distinct from the neck. The snout is acute and 

 the rostral plate turns up at the tip so that its upper surface 

 is concave. The internasals are very small and are separated 

 by the rostral which extends back to the prefrontals. The 

 nasal and first labial plates usually are united, a groove 

 extending from the nostril to the second labial. There is no 

 loreal. Frontal, supraocular and parietal plates are normal. 

 One preocular. The scales are in seventeen rows, smooth, 

 with pits. The anal is divided. The maxillary teeth are 

 small, equal, not grooved. The eye is of moderate size, 

 with round pupil. 



177. Ficimia cana (Cope) 

 Pug-nosed Snake 



Cyalopion canum Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i860, p. 243 (type 

 locality. Fort Buchanan, Arizona). 



Gyalopium canum Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, p. 36; Coues, 

 Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 624, pi. XVIII, figs. 2, 2a; 

 Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, pp. 14, 88; Cope, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 603; Cope, Amer. Natu- 

 ralist, Vol. XXX, 1896, p. 1014; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 

 1898, 1900, p. 947; RuTHVEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 

 XXIII, 1907, p. 587. 



Ficimia cana Carman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. VIII, 

 1883, pp. 83, 161; Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 

 1894, p. 272; Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 84; 



