75. LIOPHIS. 141 



are much shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 140-150 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 85-106. Blackish above, with 

 an interrupted yellow line or series of yellow spots on each side, 

 commencing; from the tip of the snout ; upper lip white ; ventrals, 

 subcaudals, and outer row of scales white, edged with black. 



Total length 655 millim.; tail 215. 



Cuba. 



a. ? (V. 143 ; C. 89). Cuba, M. Sall6 [C.]. 



d-c. $ (V. 150, 148; Cuba. 



C. 90, 92). 



17. Liophis parvifrons. 



Dromicus fugitivus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 132 (1858). 



lineatus, part., Giinth. 1. c. p. 134. 



parvifrons, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 79, and Proc. 



Amer. Philos. Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 273; Fischer, Jahrb. Hamb. Wist. 



Anst. v. 1888, p. 40. 



protenus, Jan, Icon. Gen. 25, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1867). 

 Leptophis frenatus, Fischer, Oster-Proyr. Akad. Gymn. Hamb, 1883, 



p. 8, pi. . figs. 9-11 '. 



Eye rather large ; snout rather short. Rostral broader than deep, 

 j ust visible from above ; internasals as long as broad or a little 

 broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal twice as long 

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

 as or a little shorter than the parietals ; lorcal nearly as long as deep ; 

 one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 or 1 -f-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 (exceptionally 17) rows. Ventrals 145- 

 165 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 110-130. Length of tail 2$ to 2| 

 times in the total length. Brown or dark olive above, with two 

 light longitudinal streaks and a more or less distinct darker vertebral 

 line ; the olive of the sides extending to the ends of the ventrals ; 

 upper lip and lower parts whitish, the labials, the gular region, 

 and the anterior ventrals usually dotted with black. Specimen h 

 uniform black. 



Total length 670 raillim. ; tail 250. 



Santo Domingo. 



a-b. rf (V. 158, 156 ; C. 123, 120). Hayti. Zoological Society. 



c-f,y- 2 (V. 152, 155, 155, 153; HaytL Hr. Itolle [C.]. ' 



C. 110, 114,:-, 11:!;, & yg. (V. 



!.-,'>: C. !:. 



h. J (V. ll.->; C. 123). S. Domingo. M. Salld [C.l. 



*. $ (V. 165; C.P). P [Barbados]. 



* Through the kindness of Dr. F. Miiller, I have examined one of the type 

 specimens, stated to be from Sierra Leone, presorted in the Basle Museum. 



