124 COLUBRID. 
black stripes extending from the tip of the snout to the end of the 
tail; the outer stripe passing through the eye and extending along 
the second, third, and fourth rows of scales; the median stripe 
sometimes divided into two. 
Total length 575 millim. ; tail 120. 
Southern Mexico. 
a. 2 (V. 161; C. 65). Tehuantepec, oh. Sumichrast 
b. 2 (V.163; C.65). Santo Domingo de Dr. A.C. Buller [0]. 
V.158; 0.70). T Lote Mr. H. H. Smith{C.] 
e. o (V. ; C. 70). epetlapa, Guerrero. r. H. H. Smi old 
: a one F. D. Godman, 
3. Conophis teniatus. 
Philodryas teniatus, Hensel, Arch. f. Nat. 1868, p. 331; Bouleng. 
Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xviii, 1886, p. 434. 
Snout scarcely projecting. Rostral nearly as deep as broad, 
well visible from above; internasals shorter than the prefrontals ; 
frontal twice and a half as long as broad, longer than its distance 
from the end of the snout, slightly shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal a little longer than deep; one preocular, just reaching the 
upper surface of the head ; two postoculars ; temporals 1+2; seven 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields. Scales in 17 rows. 
Ventrals 170; anal divided; subcaudals 74. Pale yellowish olive 
above, with an olive-brown, black-edged vertebral stripe three scales 
wide; a broader lateral dark stripe, covering the three outer rows 
of scales and the outer ends of the ventrals, bordered above by a 
black line running along the fourth row of scales; a fine line right 
along the outer row of scales ; head olive, with darker variegations ; 
a white line from the rostral along the four anterior upper labials ; 
ellowish beneath, with a bluish-grey streak on each side. 
Total length 615 millim.; tail 150. 
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. 
162. AMPLORHINUS. 
Amplorhinus, Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. (1847). 
Dipsas, part., Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. p. 1153 (1854). 
Coronella, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 34 (1858). 
Psammophylax, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 309. 
Tachymenis, part., Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 117 (1882). 
Amphiophis (lapsu calami), Bouleng. Proc. Zool, Soc, 1891, p. 307. 
Maxillary teeth 12 or 13, gradually increasing in size, followed 
by an enlarged, grooved tooth; mandibular teeth subequal. Head 
distinct from neck; eye moderate, with round pupil; nasal semi- 
divided. Body cylindrical; scales smooth or feebly keeled, with 
apical pits, in 17 rows; ventrals rounded. ‘Tail moderate; sub- 
caudals in two rows. . 
Tropical and South Africa. 
