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d. 2 (V. 154: < Surinam. C. W. Elloscombe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. rf (V. M.; : C, 17). nne. 



11. r;il<- reddish brown above, with more or less regular black 

 cross bars ; belly spotted with brown. 



/. $ (V. 154; C. ?). Surinam. Hr. Kappler [C.]. 



ack above, with pale brown cross bars ; belly with a median 

 ies of black spots. 



y. rf (V. 158; C. 38). Yurimaguas, Hual- Dr. ILihnel [C.]. 



laga R., N. Peru. 



1). Pale reddish brown above; snout black, back of head yellow, 

 followed by a black collar ; back with two alternating series of 

 black spots, connected on the anterior part of the body by a 

 black vertebral line ; belly dotted all over with brown. 



h. rf (V. 147; C. 30). Mmidos, Brazil. Sr. A. Peixoto [C.]. 



E. Brown above, with black-edged yellow cross bands; back of 

 head yellow ; belly dotted with brown, with two series of 

 brown spots along the middle line. 



i-k. (V. 145, 154 ; Para. 



C. -'4, 24). 



14. Atractus torquatus. 



Calumaria badia, part., Schleg. Phys. Serj). ii. p. 3-5 (1837). 

 liabdodoma torquatum, Ihim. Sf fiibr. vii. p. 101 (Is") P. 



varium, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. PJiys. ii. 1802, pp. 18, 12o. 



and Icon. Gen. 11, pi. iii. njr. 3 (1805). 



Snout obtusely pointed. Rostral small, nearly as deep as broad, 

 just visible from above ; internasals very small ; praefrontals at 

 least as long as broad ; frontal once and one third to once and a 

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

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal three times as long as 

 deep ; one postocular ; temporals 1 + 1 or 1 + 2 ; eight upper 

 labials, fourth and fifth entering tin- eye; four (or three) lower 

 labials in contact with the sinjrh- pair of chin-shields, which are 

 rather elongate, moderately broad, and separated from the sym- 

 physial. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 140-165; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 35-47. . Pale brown above, with small darker spots or 

 narrow cross bare ; yellowish beneath, with small brown spota. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 7;"). 



(Juianas. 



' (V. l.V,. 0. 47) & IVmerarn FalU. 



2 (V 13). 



