74. DROMICUS. 125 



lots vrtry exceedingly, and may be very small or so large as to 

 nearly cover the ground-colour ; a dark band on each side of the 

 head, passing through the eye, widening on the temple, and some- 

 times continued along the body ; lower parts yellow, more or less 

 dotted with brown ; in some specimens the hinder part of the body 

 and the tail blackish brown. 



Total length 1230 millim. ; tail 270. 



West Indies (Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Saba, St. 

 Eustatius, St. Kitte, Xevis). 



A. Scales in 23 rows. 



a. <$ (V.210; C. 114). St. Eustatius. CommodoreMarkham[P.]. 

 b-h. $ (V.210. 21 o; C. St. Kitts. Regan, Esq. [P.]. 



:':.!i7),h<rr.(V.211.215, 



213,204; C. 91, 95,?, 



100), &yg. (V.213;0. 



94). 



f. $ (V. 214; C. 96). St. Kitts. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 



k. $ (V. 201 ; C. 99). St. Bartholomew. Mus. Comp. Zoology 'E.I. 

 /. rf (V. 214 : C. 119). Nevis. Mus. Comp. Zoology 'E.I. 



m. $ (V. 217 ; C. 98). ? 



B. Scales in 21 rows. 



n. cJ (V. 202 ; C. 112). Anguilla. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 



(One of the types of A. cinfreus.) 



o-p. <J (V. 208 ; C. ?) & Anguilla. W. K' Elliott [C.]. 



hgr. (V. 205; C. 114). 



8. Dromicus anomalus. 



Zamenis anomalus, Peter*, Mon. Serl. Ac. 1863, p. 282. 

 Dromicus (Alsophis; anomaius, Flicker, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 

 v. 1888, p. 37. 



Eye moderate ; snout projecting, rather pointed. Rostral nearly 

 as deep as broad, well visible from above ; internasals as long as 

 broad, a little shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal once and one 

 third to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or shorter 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one pne- and two postoctilurs ; a large 

 subocular usually separating the eye from the fifth and sixth labials ; 

 temporals 1 +2 ; eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye, third 

 sometimes just touching the eye ; five lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales 

 in 21 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate laterally, 205-219 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 118-130. Length of tail 3$ to 4 times in the 

 total length. Pale brown above, the head-shields and scales edged 

 with darker ; young with numerous, more or less distinct, irregular 

 dark cross bands ; ventrals yellowish, with the outer ends brown. 



Total length 1950 millim. ; tail 550. 



Santo Domingo. 



