9, CORALLUS. 101 
D. Olive-brown above, some of the scales yellow, forming more or 
less distinct festooned lines (the borders of the markings of 
the typical form); all the scales edged with black, the black 
predominating on the tail; head with mere traces of the 
dark markings ; yal yellow, with a few small black spots. 
(X. ruschenbergii, Cope.) 
oo 43; V. 263; Rosario de Cu- Mr, ©. Webber [C.]. 
C. 111). cuta, Colombia, 
p. 2 (Se. 47; V. 262; Venezuela. 
C. 107). 
2. Corallus hortulanus. 
Seba, Thes. i. pl. liv. fig. 2 (1784), & ii. pls. 1. & Lexxiy, fig. 1 (1735) ; 
Merrem, Beitr. ii. hag 1. ii. (1790), 
Coluber hortulanus, us. Ad, Frid. p. 37 (1754). 
Boa hortulana, Linn. 8. IN. i. p. 374 (1766); Bonnat. Encyci. Méth., 
Ophiol. p. 8, pl. iii. fig. 2 (1789) ; Schneid. Amph,. ii. 245 (1801) : 
Daud. tv. p 1 ee ee Miinch, vii. 
saps p-1 
iris, Linn. l.c.; Bonnat. l. c. 
Vipera Bis Laur. Syn. Rept, p. 102 dre 
adarensis, Laur’, 1. ¢ 
Coluber maderensis, Gmel, 8. N. i. p. 1092 (1788). 
— bitis, Gmel. l. ¢. 
Boa merremi, Schneid. Amph, ii. p. 259. 
—— elegans, Daud. t. c. p. 123, pl. lxi. 
Corallus obtusirostris, Daud. t. c. p. 259. 
Draco hortulanus, Oken, Lehrb. ay? iii. p. 277 (1816). 
Reo). ornatum, Wagl. in Spiz, Serp. Bras, p. 40, pl. xiv. fig. 2 
pl Wag, 1. e. p. 43, pl. xv. 
—— hortulanum, Fiteing: N.’ Class. Rept. p, 04 (1896); Dum. § 
Bibr. vi. p. 545 (1844) ; Jan, Icon, Gén. p. be, 1. 7, pl. iii. (1864). 
Boa modesta, Reuss, Mus. Senckenbd. i. p. 129 (1834), 
as” , Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 392, pl. xiv. figs. 10 & 
Corallus hortulanus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 42 (1842). 
—— maculatus, Gray, I. ¢. 
—— hortulanus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 97 (1849). 
Rostral slightly deeper than broad, not or but scarcely visible 
from above ; nasals usually in contact behind the rostral, followed 
by a pair of large preefrontals ; a series of slightly enlarged supra- 
oculars, separated from the eye by one series of seales; 12 = 15 
scales from eye to eye across the forehead, and 12 to 17 round the 
eye; a large preocular and two large loreals ; 12 to 14 upper 
labials, strongly pitted below and behind the eye; anterior lower 
labials not pitted, posterior deeply pitted. Scales in 51 to 59 rows. 
Ventrals 270-299; anal entire; subcaudals 108-128. Brown or 
grey-brown above, with two alternating series of large, more 
or less distinct, dark brown, rhomboidal or roundish spots, which 
may be edged with yellowish ; head usually pale brown, with dark 
brown steaks edged with yellowish, viz. a curved one on the snout, 
from eye to eye, another on the middle of the back of the head, and 
two on each side, behind the eye ; head sometimes dark brown with 
