236 COLUBRID. 
chin-shields. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 207; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 26. Pale reddish above, with a dark brown vertebral 
line and a dark brown lateral streak on the second, third, and 
fourth rows of scales; a pair of rather indistinct brown lines on 
the fifth and sixth rows of scales; head dark brown above, with a 
round yellowish spot on the snout and a yellowish spot on the third 
and fourth upper labials; a yellowish nuchal collar; end of tail 
black; lower parts white. 
Total length 217 millim. ; tail 18. 
North-eastern Peru. 
a. 3 (V. 207; C. 26). Cayaria. Mr. W. Davis [C.]; 
Messrs. Veitch [P.}, 
7. Apostolepis dorbignyi. 
Calamaria d’orbignyi, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 80 (1837). 
Ela ee orbignyi, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 834 (1854); Jan, 
rch, Zool. Anat. Phys, ii. 1862, p. 43, and Icon. Gén. 14, pl. i. 
fig. 2 (1865) ; Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. xxix. 1884, p. 578. 
Apostolepis orbignyi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 524. 
Snout feebly projecting; eye minute, Rostral a little broader 
than deep, the portion visible from above measuring about half ifs 
distance from the frontal ; latter shield once and a half as long as 
broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 
than the parietals; nasal not in contact with the preocular; a 
single postocular ; six upper labials, second and third entering the 
eye, fifth and sixth in contact with the parietal ; symphysial nearly 
touching the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the 
posterior; four lower labials in contact with the chin-shields, 
fourth largest, Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 160; anal divided; 
subcaudals 37. Red above; head and nape black, separated by a 
white collar; snout and fourth upper labials whitish ; end of tail 
black, except the terminal shield which is white; lower parts 
white. 
Total length 384 millim. ; tail 49. 
Chili (?) *. 
8. Apostolepis erythronota. 
Elapomorphus erythronotus, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1880, p. 222; 
Strauch, Bull. Ac, St. Pétersb. xxix. 1884, p. 579. 
Apostolepis erythronotus lineatus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos, Soc. 
xxiv, 1887, p. 56, 
Form and lepidosis as in A. dorbignyi, but rostral larger, as in 
A, flavitorquata, nasal in contact with the prmocular, and five 
lower labials in contact with the chin-shields, Ventrals 244-251 ; 
* As in many other specimens brought home by d’Orbigny, the locality is 
doubtful. I have recorded the species from Paraguay through confusion with 
A. ambinigra, 
