146 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Salvadora decurtata. 



(1883, Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool. Camb., viii, 3, pp. 39, 

 145.) 



(1884, Garmau, Bull. Essex lust., xvi, p. 25.) 



(1887, Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, p. 72.) 



(1888, Bocourt, Miss. Sci. au Mex., Reptiles, lie livr., p. 663.) 

 Phyllorhynchus decurfatus. 



1890, Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 154. 



(1892, Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, p. 618.) 

 Lytorhynchus deciirtaius. 



(1893, Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., i, p. 417.) 



This peculiar snake has not been found by any of the 

 California Academy's expeditions to Lower California. 



The type was collected, by Mr. Wm. M. Gabb, in the 

 " upper part of Lower California." Mr. L. Belding 

 obtained a second specimen at La Paz. 



Salvadora grahami^ B. and G. 



Salvadora grahamioi. 



(1853, Baird and Girard, Cat. N. A. Eeptiles, 1, Serpents, p. 104.) 

 (1887, Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, p. 72.) 

 (1892, Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, p. 619.) 



Phimothyra grahamice . 



1861, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 300. 

 (1875, Yarrow, U. S. G. G. Surv. W. lOOtli Mer., v, p. 538.) 

 (1875, Coues, U. S. G. G. Surv. W. lOOth Mer., v, p. 620.) 

 (1875, Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, p. 38.) 



Phimothyra grahami. 



1883, Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, pp. 15, 98. 

 (1887, Belding, West. Am. Scientist, iii, 24, p. 98.) 



Each of the specimens in the Academy's collection 



has nine upper labials, the number originally stated by 



Prof. Baird.* Two have a single small subocular plate 



on each side, as in the type of S. grahamicR hexalepis and 



in one of the specimens referred to that name by Dr. 



Stejneger in his Annotated List of the Reptiles and 



Batrachians Collected by the Death Valley Expedition. 



" Cope gives eight as the number in his key to the species of this genus 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, p. 619). 



