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0. Body black, with 62 whitish cross-lines; head entirely black 
above. (E. confluentus, Jan.) 
a. 2 (V. 182; C. 46). Moyobamba, E. Peru. Mr. A. H. Roff[C.). 
P. Reddish above, scales tipped with black, without annuli on the 
body, but a dorsal series of 25 or 26 large roundish black spots 
with light centre; tail with black annuli; head and nape 
black above. (£. ocellatus, Peters.) 
a. 2 (V. 178; C. 40). —-? Zoological Society. 
4. 2 (V.177; C. 46). —? College of Surgeons. 
2. Erythrolamprus decipiens. 
Tachymenis decipiens, Giinth. Biol. C-Am., Rept. p. 163, pl. liii. 
fig. A (1895). ; 
Snout very short, moderately depressed, rounded. Rostral nearly 
twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; internasals 
half as long as the prefrontals; frontal once and one fourth to once 
and one third as long as broad, longer than its distance from the 
end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as 
deep; one preocular; one or two postoculars; temporals 1+1, 
the first usually absent, fused with the sixth upper labial, which 
then forms a suture with the parietal ; seven upper labials, third 
and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 
17 rows. Ventrals 166-173 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 85 or more. 
Dark brown, with a yellow, black-edged lateral streak from behind 
the temple to the end of the tail, and another along the outer row 
of scales, the lower black border of which extends on the ends of 
the ventral shields ; an elliptical yellow, black-edged spot on each 
parietal shield behind the eye; upper lip yellowish, black-edged ; 
lower parts yellowish white. 
Total length 630 millim.; tail (end missing) 190. 
Costa Rica. 
a-c. g (V. 168; C. ?) Irazu, Costa Rica. F. D. Godman, Esq. 
& $ NG 173, 166 ; [P.}]. (Types.) 
. P,P). 
3. Erythrolamprus grammophrys. 
Erythrolamprus grammophrys, Dugés, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxv. 
Tass 181, fig., and ‘Weneotis (2) i. 1890, p. 402, pl. xxvii. 
Tachymenis grammophrys, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 162 
ql 305) grammophry » Rept. p 
Allied to Z. imperialis, but loreal much longer than deep, only 
seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, and scales 
in 17 rows. Ventrals 175; subcaudals 50 or more. Back greyish 
brown, sides reddish brown; a whitish line on each side of the 
