242 COLtfBKIDJS. 



C. Scales in 25 rows. 



f-9- ? (V- 149, 146; Freetown, Sierra Leone. R. Dinzey, Esq. [0.]. 

 0. 60, 64). 



D. Scales in 27 rows. 



A. $ (V. 152; 0.?). Freetown, Sierra Leone. R. Dinzey, Esq. [C.]. 



44. Tropidonotus anoscopus. 



Tropidonotus anoscopus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 209. 

 Natrix anoscopus, Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 673. 



Snout short, obtuse. Eostral shield twice as broad as deep; 

 internasals small, very narrow anteriorly ; frontal elongate ; loreal 

 deeper than long ; one prse- and two postooulars ; a single anterior 

 temporal ; eye separated from the labials by a series of small sub- 

 oculars ; nine upper labials. Scales in 23 rows, aU keeled except 

 those of the first row. Ventrals 143 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 73. 

 Dark plumbeous brown above, with blackish vertical bars, alternate 

 upon each side ; beneath dirty brownish white, each shield brown at 

 the base. 



Total length 355 millim. ; tail 90. 



Cuba. 



45. Tropidonotus fasciatus. 



Coluber fasciatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 378 (1766) ; Catesby, Nat. Hist. 



Carol, ii. pi. Iviii. (1771) ; Daud. Sept. vii. p. 184 (1803) ; Harl. 



Med. PMjs. Res. p. 120 (1835). 

 sipedon, Linn. t. c. p. 379 ; Daud. t. c. p. 148 ; Harl. I. c. 



p. 114 ; Storer, Rep. Fish. % Rept. Mass. p. 228 (1839). 



erythrogaster, Catesby, t. c. pi. xlvi. 



porcatus, Latr. Rept. iv. p. 82, pi. ~ (1802) ; Baud. t. c. 



p. 204; Harl I. c. p. 119. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535 ; Holbr. N. Am. Herp. 



iv. p, 25, pi. V. (1842) ; Bum. 8f Bihr. vii. p. 566 (1854) ; Gunth. 



Cat. p. 76 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 221, 



and Icon. Q&n. 26, pi. iii. (1868). 



porcatus, Boie, I. c. 



Coluber cauda-schistosus, Harl. I. c. p. 124. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus, part., Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 323 (1837). 

 Coluber pcBoilogaster, Wied, Reise N. Am. i. p. 106 (1839). 

 Trop'donotus sipedon, Holbr. I. c. p. 29, pi. vi. ; Dekay, N. York 



Faun., Rept. p. 42, pi. xiv. fig. 31 (1842) ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. 



p. 25, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1883). 



erythrogaster, Holbr. I. c. p. 33, pi. vii. 



niger, Holbr. I. c. p. 37, pi. ix. 



rhombifer, Halloio. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 177 ; Cope, Proc, 



Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 298 ; Jan, II. co. p. 222, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 transversus, Hallow. I. c. ; Garm. Bull, Essex Inst. xxiv. 1892, 



p. 103. 

 Nerodia sipedon, Baird Sf Qir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 38 (1853) ; 



H. Garm. Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 269. 

 fasciata, Baird Sr Gvr. I. c. p. 39. 



