Cope.] ^^^ [SeiU.L'i, 



fourteen ; anterior four, very elongate inward. Gastrosteges, 255 ; anal, 

 1 ; urosteges, 78. 



Color, light fawn brown above, below golden yellow. A series of fifty- 

 four deep brown spots extend on tlie dorsal region to opposite the vent, 

 and seventeen on the tail, in the individual described. These spots are 

 darker edged and are occasionally confluent into a sliort irregular band. 

 They are often transverse and are generally twelve scales wide, and three 

 or four long. 



Length .Om 665 ; of tail, .108 ; rictus ovis, .016. 



From Turk's Island, obtained by my friend. Professor Adrian J. Ebell. 

 This Boa is very distinct from the Homalochili heretofore described, and 

 exhibits a decided tendency to Ungalia, especially to such species as U. 

 dipsadina. The species of Homalochilus Fischer, are ; II. muUisectus, 

 Cope, Proc. A. N. Science, Philadelphia, 1862, 70. H. striatiis, Fischer, 

 Abh. Natur. Hamburg. 1856, 101. 11. strigilatus, Cope, 1. c. p. 71 ; H. 

 clirysogaster, Cope, supra, and H. iortilis, Jan. {DendopMlus tortilis Jan. 

 Iconographie des Ophidiens Plate). The last named belongs here, as I 

 learned from a study of the type specimen in the Mus. Milan, It differs 

 very much from the species above described, but I cannot now point out 

 its characters, having mislaid my MS. description. The Epicrates versi- 

 color of Steindachner, beautifully figured in the Denkschriften of the 

 Wiener Academic, belongs to this genus, and appears to be H. strigilatus 

 m., previously named. 



The collection from Turk's Island embraced the following species : 



Homalochilus chysogaster. Cope. 



Mabuiacepedei, Gray. 



Anolis ordinatus. Cope, Pr. A. N. Sci. Phila. 1864, 175. 



Cyclura (Ctenosaura) carinata, Harlan Journ. A. N. Sci. IV, p. 242. 



I would here notice that Dr. John Giindlach, has j)ublished in the Re- 

 pertorio Fisico, etc., de Cuba, 1868, a catalogue of the Batrachiaand Rep- 

 tila of the Island of Cuba, which furnishes a desideratum of long standing. 

 I observe, however, that he interjects assertions as to the probability of 

 several of my species being synonymes of others, as Anolis porcus, A. iso- 

 lepis, Liocephalus raviceps and macropus, etc. As I suspect that these 

 suggestions are not original with Dr. Giindlach, I will observe that as a 

 general rule, it is unsafe for American naturalists to rely on assertions of 

 some Continental European zoologists, as to identity of the species 

 of each other, or of American zoologists, since it is an old practice, 

 the offspring of autocracy rather than of science, and which deceives 

 only temporarily. 



Enulius murintjs. Cope. gen. et. sp. nov. 

 Char. Genericus. Palatine, pherygoid, and anterior portion of maxil- 

 lary bones edentulous ; a long, strong grooved tooth on the posterior part 

 of the maxillary bone. Internasal plates present ; rostral prominent de- 

 pressed ; two distinct nasals, a loreal, no preocular, two postoculars. 



