1 34 COLT7BEIDJ3. 



usually with dark dots ; lower parts yellowisli, uniform or dotted, 

 or speckled with blackish. 



Total length 1020 millim. ; tail 300. 



Ecuador, Peru, Northern ChiU. 



a-b. 5 (V. 202, 203; Tacna, Peru. J. G. Fischer Collection. 



0. 102, 97). 

 c-e. Yg. (V. 209, 215, Lima. J. M. Cowper, Esq. [P.].. 



207; 0.112, 123, 117). 

 /. Hgr. (V. 213 ; 0. 123) . Id. of San Lorenzo, College of Surgeons. 



Peru. 

 ff~i. c? (V. 208 ; C. 125) Peru. T. Scott, Esq. [P.]. 



& S (V. 200, 200; C. 



112, 107). 

 7c-m. d (V. 200; C. 109), Peru. 



$ (V.201;C.102),& 



yg. (V. 184; C. 108). 

 n. Yg. (V. 190 ; C. ?). Chili. ,T, f- 



o. <J (V. 207 ; C. ?). ? HaslarCoU. I ^n^Zfl 



^. S(V.210;C.lll). — ? Id^sZ} 



9. PMlodryas nattereri.* 



Philodryas nattereri, Steind, Sitzh. Ah. Wien, hcii. 1870, p. 346,^ 

 pi. Tii. figs. 1-3. 



Eye two thirds the length of the snout. Eostral a little broader 

 than deep, visible from above ; internasals shorter than the prse- 

 frontals ; frontal twice as long as broad, longer than its distancfr 

 from the end of the snout and than the parietals ; loreal as long as 

 deep ; one prBBOcular, not reaching the frontal ; two or three post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+2 or 3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 21 rows, 

 Ventrals 203-225 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 114-124. Olive 

 above ; a yellow line on each side bordering the upper surface of 

 the head ; a yellow, black-edged streak along the upper lip ; 

 yellowish beneath, with a blackish line along each side of the belly;, 

 throat brown, with small yellowish spots. 



Total length 895 millim. ; tail 275. 



Matto Grosso. 



10. Philodryas serra. 



Herpetodryas serra, Schhg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 180, pi. vii. figs. 1 & 2 



(1837). 

 Dryophylax serra, Dum. 8r Bihr. vii. p. 1113 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. 



Gin. 49, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1879). 

 Philodryas serra, Giinth. Cat. p. 125 (1858). 

 ? Galeophis jani, Berthold, Gotting. Nachr. 1869, p. 181. 

 Teleolepis striaticeps, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. 8oc. xi. 1869, p. 163.. 

 Tropidodryas serra. Cope, Proc. Amer. PMlos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 192, 



* I have examined a male specimen (V. 203 ; C. 124), the type of Fhilodryas 

 molorchimis (Berthold), Jan, Elenco, p. 84, preserved in the G-ottingen Museum, 

 and for the loan of which I am indebted to the kindness of Prof. Ehlers. A 

 description of it has never been published, bo far as I am aware. 



