81. RH.UMX.EA. 1 ''"> 



"). Rhadinaea anomala. 



Coronolla anomnla, (litnth. Cat. p. .'17 i l v ~>-<). and '/sml. Rec. 1866, 

 p. li'<i; litailen,/. Ann. \ M,/. .\. If. (.'.I \\iii. lf.. p. -|:M. 



;.hi> rutilu.-,' <!*, J'nx.: Ac. Plnlttd. 18Gl>, p. 80, awl 1868, 

 'p. MM. 

 (Wonella pulchella, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. -"'I. 



ninl Icon. Gen. 17, pi. Hi. fig. 4 (l8(iCi). 

 Ap.irophis anouialus, (.'<>]>e, 1'ruc. Am. 1'hilos. Soc. x\\i. 1877, p. 93. 



Eye moderate. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals as long as broad, as long as or a little shorter 

 than the pra>frontals * ; frontal narrow, twice as long as broad, as 

 long as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the 

 sii'nit, as long as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or a little 

 longer f ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 -|- 2 ; eight 

 (exceptionally seven) 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 longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals indistinctly angnlate laterally, 147- 

 159 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 50-73. Length of tail 4] to 5 

 times in the total length. Brown or olive above, with large black 

 spots dotted with yellow, and two yellow longitudinal lines or series 

 of spots ; the black spots forming symmetrical vertical bars on the 

 sides ; belly yellow. 



Total length 570 millim. ; tail 105. 



From Southern Brazil and Paraguay to Buenos Ayres. 



a. <$ (V. 155 ; C. ?). Parana. Haslar Collection. 



(Type.) 



b. (V. 158; C. 69). Paraguay. Prof. Grant [P.]. 

 c-d. c? (V. 159; C. 09) & Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Ihering [C.]. 



$ (V. 155; C. <!). 

 e-f. 2 (V. 147, 154 ; Dept. of Soriano, Uru- R. Havers, Esq. [P.]. 



guay- 



y-i. c? (V. 152; C. 58) & Buenos Avres. G. Wilks, Esq. [P.I 



$ (V. 155, 155 ; C. 53, 

 68> 



k-l. c? (V. 151 ; C. 59) & South of Rio de la Lieut. Gairdner [P.]. 



$ (V. 147; C. 50). 1'lata. 



in. Skull. Rio Grande do Sul. 



6. Rhadinaea sagittifera. 



ChlorOBoma pagittifer, Jim, in Sunn. Reite La Plata, ii. p. "> 



(1861) [no de.-cription], 

 Liopeltis sagittifi-r, Jan, Elenco, p. 82 (1863), and Icon. G6n. 31, 



ply. ti-r. -2 ( IM-.IM. 

 Liophis pulcher, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Iv. 1867, p. 267, pi. ii. 



I've moderate; rostral a little broader than deep, well visible 



* The type specimen is anomalous in having an azygoub shield separating the 

 pair of prii-fnint.iU. 



t Fused with the pnefrontal in the type specimen. 



