154. OXTRHOPTJS. 103 



D. Above barred black and red,. the red bars, whicb may be dotted 

 with black, as broad as or a little narrower than the black, and 

 30 to 40 in number ; the black bars usually forming; complete 

 annuli on the tail. 



a. S (V. 207; 0.80). Mexico. Mr. Hugo Finck [0.]. 



6. ? (V. 204; C. 85). Atoyac, Guerrero. Mr. H.H. Smith [0.]; 



F.D.Godman,Esq. 



c. Hot. (V. 193 ; 0. 78). Vera Paz (low forest). 0. SdVin, Es^. [0.]. 

 d-e.Hgv. (V. 204,197; Chontalez, Nicaragua. 



C. 105, 95). 

 /. ? (V. 210 ; C. 80). Chontalez, Nicaragua. E. A. Eix, Esq.![0.] ; 



W. M. Crowfoot, 

 Esq. [P.]. 

 ff. Yg. (V. 206 ; C. 97). Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Dr. Eothschuh [0.1. 

 . h, i. d (V. 205 ; 0. 88) & Hacienda Rosa de Dr. Eothschuh [0.1. 

 hgr. (V. 198 ; 0. 92). Jericho, Nicaragua, 



3250 ft. 

 Tt-l. Hgr. (V. 205, 194; Costa Rica. 



0. 88, 103). 

 m. Hgr. (V. 213 ; 0. 109). W. Ecuador. Mr. Eraser [0.1 



». Tg. (V. 210; 0.93). Quito. 



2. Oxyrhopus rhombifer. 



Lycodon formosus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 113 (1837). 

 Oxyrhopus rhombifer. Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 1018 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. 



Ghi. 35, pi. V. fig. 2 (1870) ; B&rg, Act. Ac. Cordoba, y. 1884, 



p. 95. 



subpunctatus, Dum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 1016. 



) dorbignyi, Ihim. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 1024. 



petolarius, part., Ounth. Cat. p. 190 (1858) ; Jan, Elenco, p. 94 



(1863). 

 PCoronella bachmanni, Weyenb. Period, Zool, Cordoba, ii. 1876, 



p. 193. ' 



Eye rather smaU, its diameter one half (young) to one third the 

 length of the snout, which is rounded and scarcely projecting. 

 Eostral much broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals much shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as broad 

 or a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of 

 the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal much longer than deep ; 

 one preeocular, forming a suture with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the 

 eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 174r-225 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 47-80 pairs. Eed or pale brown above, the scales tipped with 

 black, with black cross-bands or rhomboidal transverse spots ; upper 

 surface of head, as far as the posterior third or fourth of the parietal 

 shields, black ; yellow beneath, uniform or dotted with black. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 160. 



Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia. 



a-b. S (V. 205 ; C. 68) & BrazU. Mr. Clausen [0.]. 



§ (V. 216; 0.57). 



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