242 COLUBRID. 
anal divided; subcandals 22-30. Red above, white beneath ; 
upper surface "of head and nape black, separated by a yellowish- 
white cross-band. 
Total length 370 millim.; tail 25. Grows to 938 millim. 
Bolivia, Paraguay, Southern Brazil, Uruguay. 
a-b. Her. i: ol C. are Uruguay. 
& yg. (V. 226; C. 26). 
5. Elapomorphus lemniscatus. 
morphus lemniscatus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. he 840 (1854) ; Jan, 
rel l. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 45, and Gén. 14, pl. ii. 
. 8 (1865) ; Strauch, Bull. Ac, St. Pétersb. xxix. 1884, p. 567 ; 
Buln Ann & Mag. N. H. (5) xv. 1885, p. 821, pl. x., ‘and xvi. 
1885, 
— 0 eal Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 518, pl. —. fig. 2; 
Strauch, l. c. p. 569. 
Phalotris lemniscatus, Cope, Proe, Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 524. 
—— reticulatus, Cope, /. ¢. 
ay omorphus iheringi, Strauch, 1. ¢. p. 571. 
otris melanopleurus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos, Soc. xxii. 1885, 
is 189, 
Rostral a little broader than deep, the portion visible from above 
measuring about half its distance from the frontal; suture between 
the internasals one fourth to one third the length of the single 
prefrontal ; frontal once and one third to once and two thirds as 
long as broad, shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, 
much shorter than the parietals, which are at least twice as long as 
broad; one pre- and two postoculars; temporals 1+1; six upper 
labials, second and third entering the eye; four lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a 
little longer than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 185- 
212; anal divided; subcaudals 21-34. Red to greyish brown 
above, with or without a black vertebral stripe; head blackish, 
usually with a yellowish, black-edged occipital collar which may 
be much reduced or even entirely absent ; lateral scales and ventrals 
and subcaudals black, light-edged, the outer or the two outer rows 
of ene often yellowish white; a black bar across the base of the 
tail. 
Total length 700 millim. ; tail 60. 
Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. 
a-b, c, d-f, g-k. 3 oO ae ‘08 RioGrande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Ihering 
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