9. COEALLTJS. 101 



D. Olive-brown above, some of the scales yellow, forming more or 

 less distinct festooned lines (the borders of the markings of 

 the typical form) ; aU the scales edged with black, the black 

 predominating on the taU ; head with mere traces of the 

 dark markings ; belly yellow, with a few small black spots. 

 (X. ruschenhergii. Cope.) 



o. c? (Sc. 43; V. 263; Rosario de Cu- Mr. 0. Webber [0.]. 



0. 111). cuta, Colombia. 



p. $ (Sc. 47; V. 262; Venezuela. 



c. 107). ^ a.^-^y^'-'^' 



2. Corallus hortulanus. / . -<_ . ^ . ; , , 



8eba, Thes. i. pi. liv. fig. 2 (1734), & ii. pis. 1. & Ixxxiv. flg. 1 (1735) ; 



Men-em, Beitr. ii. p. 14, pi. ii. (1790). 

 Coluber hortulanus, Linn. Mas. Ad. Frid. p. 37 (1754). 

 Boa hortulana, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 374 (1766) ; Bonnat. Encyel. MUJi., 



Ophiol. p. 8, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1789) ; Schneid. Amph. ii. p. 245 (1801) ; 



Daud. Sept. v. p. 119 (1803) ; Schneid. Denkschr. Ah. Miinch. vii. 



1821, p. 114. 



enydxis, Linn. I. c. ; Bonnat. I. c. pi. viii. fig. 8. 



Vipera bitis, Laur. Syn. Bept. p. 102 (1768). 



madarensis, Laur. I. c. 



Coluber maderensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1092 (1788). 



■ bitis, Gmel. I. c. 



Boa merremi, Schneid. Amph. ii. p. 259. 



elegans, Baud. t. c. p. 123, pi. Ixi. 



Corallus obtusirostris, Daud. t. c. p. 259. 



Draco hortulanus, Oken, Lehrb. Naturg. iii. p. 277 (1816). 



Xiphosoma ornatum, Wagl. in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 40, pi. xiv. fig. 2 



(1824). 



dorsuale, Wagl. I. c. p. 43, pi. xv. 



hortulanum, Fitting. N. Class. Bept. p. 54 (1826) ; Dum. 4f 



Bibr. vi. p. 545 (1844) ; Jan, Icon. G^n. p. 92, 1. 7, pi. iii. (1864). 

 Boa modesta, Beuss, Mus. Senchenb. i. p. 129 (1834). 

 hortulana, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 392, pi. xiv. figs. 10 & 



11 (1837). 

 Corallus hortulanus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 42 (1842). 



maculatus, Gray, I. c. 



hortulanus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 97 (1849). 



Eostral slightly deeper than broad, not or but scarcely visible 

 from above ; nasals usually in contact behind the rostral, followed 

 by a pair of large praefrontals ; a series of slightly enlarged supra- 

 oculars, separated from the eye by one series of scales ; 12 to 15 

 scales from eye to eye across the forehead, and 12 to 17 round the 

 eye ; a large prseocular and two large loreals ; 12 to 14 upper 

 labials, strongly pitted below and behind the eye ; anterior lower 

 labials not pitted, posterior deeply pitted. Scales in 51 to 59 rows. 

 Ventrals 270-299 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 108-128. Brown or 

 pale grey-brown above, with two alternating series of large, more 

 or less distinct, dark brown, rhomboidal or roundish spots, which 

 may be edged with yellowish ; head usually pale brown, with dark 

 brown steaks edged with yellowish, viz. a curved one on the snout, 

 from eye to eye, another on the middle of the back of the head, and 

 two on each side, behind the eye ; head sometimes dark brown with 



