242 COLUBRID &. 
C. Scales in 25 rows. 
F2, fe) 4A 149, 146; Freetown, SierraLeone. R. Dinzey, Esq. [C.]. 
. 60, 64). 
D. Scales in 27 rows. 
h. 9 (V. 152; C.?). Freetown, Sierra Leone. R. Dinzey, Esq. [C.}. 
44. Tropidonotus anoscopus. 
Tropidonotus anoscopus, Cope, Proc, Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 299. 
Natrix anoscopus, Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 673. 
Snout short, obtuse. Rostral shield twice as broad as deep; 
internasals small, very narrow anteriorly ; frontal elongate; loreal 
deeper than long; one pre- and two postoculars; a single anterior 
temporal ; eye separated from the labials by a series of small sub- 
oculars; nine upper labials. Scales in 23 rows, all keeled except 
those of the first row. Ventrals 143; anal divided; subcaudals 73. 
Dark plumbeous brown above, with blackish vertical bars, alternate 
‘upon each side ; beneath dirty brownish white, each shield brown at 
the base. 
Total length 355 millim. ; tail 90. 
Cuba. 
45. Tropidonotus fasciatus. 
Coluber fasciatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 378 (1766); Catesby, Nat. Hist. 
Carol. ii. pl. lviii. (1771) ; Daud. Rept. vii. p. 184 (1803) ; Hart. 
Med. Phys. Res. p. 120 (1835). 
—sipedon, Linn, t. ce. p. 379; Daud. t. c. p. 148; Harl. 1. e, 
p- 114; Storer, Rep. Fish. § Rept. Mass. p. 8 (1839). 
—— erythrogaster, Catesby, t. c. pl. xlvi. 
—— porcatus, Latr. Rept. iv. p. 82, pl. — (1802); Daud. ¢. ¢. 
p- 3 Hari. l. ce. p. 119. 
Tropidonotus fasciatus, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 535; Holbr. N. Am. _— 
iv. p. 25, y. v. (1842); Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 566 (1854); Giinth. 
Cat. p. 76 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 221, 
and Icon. Gién. 26, pl. iii. (1868). 
—— porcatus, Boie, 1. ¢. 
Coluber cauda-schistosus, Hari. 1. c. p. 124. © 
Tropidonotus fasciatus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 823 (1837). 
Coluber peecilogaster, Wied, Reise N. Am. i. p. 106 (1839). 
Tropidonotus sipedon, Holbr. 1. ¢. aS 29, pl. vi.; Dekay, N. York 
aun., Rept. p. 42, pl. xiv. fig. 31 (1842); Garm. N. Am. Rept. 
p. 25, pl. il. fig. 3 (1883). 
oa iasgey9 olbr. 1. c. p. 33, pl. vii. 
—— niger, Holbr. 1. c. p. 37, pl. ix. 
—— rhombifer, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p.177 ; Cope, Proc. 
Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 298; Jan, il. ce. p. 222, pl. iv. fig. 2. 
ced | Hallow. |. c.; Garm. Bull, Essex Inst, xxiy. 1892, 
p- ; J 
Nerodia sipedon, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 38 (1858); 
“H, Garm. Bull. Tilin, Lab. iii. 1892, p. 269. 
pg fasciata, Baird § Gar. Z, c, Pp 39, 
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