118 COLUBKID.S. 



fused to a single shield ; frontal not broader than the supraocular, 

 twice as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 

 than deep; one pra> and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2; eight 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 166-177 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 72-88. Pale grey -brown above, with a dorsal 

 scries of rhombic or arrow-headed dark brown markings ; head 

 with dark undulous markings above; lips and chin grey or brown ; 

 a whitish streak from the eye to the side of the neck ; a more or 

 less distinct dark lateral stripe; lower parts spotted or powdered 

 with brown. 



Total length 700 millim. ; tail 140. 



Santo Domingo. 



a. $ (V. 174; C. 72). S. Domingo*. (Type.) 



b. rf (V. 167 ; C. 86). Cape Hayti. Hr. Rolle [C.]. Fischer Coll. 



c. Yg. (V. 167 ; C. 88). Gonaives". Hr. Rolle [C.I. 



d. Yg. (V. 172 ; C. 78). Hayti. Hr. Rolle [C.]. 



e. $ (V. 177 ; C. 75). Hayti. Christiania Museum. 



74. DROMICUS. 



Chironius, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Kept. p. 29 (1826). 



Psammophis, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 201 (1837). 



Dromicus, part., Bibr. in R. de la Saara, Hist. Cuba, Erp. p. 221 



(1843) ; bum. $ Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 646 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. Col. 



Sn. p. 126 (1858) ; Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 66 (1863; ; Bocourt, 



Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 707 (1890). 

 Treniophis, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1854, p. 226. 

 Liophis, part., Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76. 

 Alsophis, Cope, I. c. 



Ocyophis, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 1886, p. 491. 

 Orophis, Garman, Bull. Essex Inst. xxiv. 1892, p. 86. 



Fig. 11. 



Maxillary and mandible of Dromicus angulifer. 



Maxillary teeth 11 to 17, increasing in size posteriorly, followed, 

 after a considerable interspace, by two strongly enlarged ones ; 

 anterior mandibular teeth much larger than the posterior. Head 



* Purchased of H. Cuming as from Barbados. I find that all the specimens 

 marked "Barbados, Cuming B Coll./' belong to species louud in S. Domingo. 



