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8. Liophis melanotus. 



Coluber melanotus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 534 (1802). 



raninus, Men: Tent. p. 10G (1SJ<M. 



yittatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philnd. 1845, p. 242. 



Dromicus melanotus, Gitnth. Cat. p. 133 (1858) ; Garm. Proc. Am. 



Pfu'los. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 282. 

 Liophis vittatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 297. 



melanonotus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 18(30, p. :.'.").'!. 



melanotus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1803, p. 298, and 



Icon. Gen. 18, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1806). 



Eye moderate ; snout short. Rostral nearly twice as broad as 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long, shorter 

 than the prsefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds to twice as long 

 as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the suout, as long 

 as or a little shorter than the parietals : loreal deeper than long ; 

 one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 -f "2 ; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering the eye : four or five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a 

 little shorter than the posterior. (Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 obtusely angulate laterally, 144-157 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 53-65. Length of tail 4| to 5 times in the total length. Yel- 

 lowish ; vertebral region (4 or 5 scales wide) black, with a white 

 and black streak on each side ; the vertebral stripe narrower on the 

 nape, and sometimes broken up into spots ; the dorse-lateral streaks 

 usually broken up into spots on the nape ; head olive above, with 

 a black lateral streak passing through the eye ; upper lip and lower 

 parts uniform yellowish white. 



Total length 610 millim. ; tail 140. 



Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada. 



a-d. <$ (V. 148, 151 ; C. 



64, 61) & (V. 151, 



150: C. 65, 65). 

 e. 2 (V. 144 ; C. 58). 

 /. 6 (V. 148; C.57). 

 g. Yg. (V. 144 ; C. 61). 

 h. <$ (V. 153 ; C. 53). 

 i. $ (V. 145 ; C. 56). 



Rosario de Cucuta, 

 Colombia. 



Cartagena. 

 Sta. Marta. 

 Colombia. 

 Venezuela. 

 Tobago. 



Mr. C. Webber [C.]. 



Capt. Earth [P.]. 



Mr. Dyson [C.I. 

 W. J. A. Ludlarn, 

 Esq. [P.]. 



9. Liophis almadensis. 



Natrix almadensis, Wagl. in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 30, pi. x. fig. 3 



(1824). 

 Liophis conirostris, Giinth. Cat. p. 46 (1858), and Zool. Kef. 1866, 



p. 126. 

 - almadensis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 78; Boettg. 



Zeitschr.f. ges. Naturw. Iviii. 1885, p. 228 ; Bouleng. Ann. # Mag. 



N. H. (5) xv. 1885, p. 194, & xviii. 1886, p. 432. 

 Lygophis conirostris, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76. 

 Liophis wagleri, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 297, 



and Icon. G6n. 18, pi. iii. tigs. 2 & 3 (1866). 

 f Liophis verecundus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. p. 300. 



