204 COIUBBID^. . 



O. Body black, with 62 whitish cross-lines ; head entirely black 



above. (JE. confluentus, Jan.) 

 a. $ (V. 182 ; C. 46). Moyobamba, E. Peru. Mr. A. H. Eoff [0.]. 



P. Reddish above, scales tipped with black, without annuli on the 

 body, but a dorsal series of 25 or 26 large roundish black spots 

 with light centre ; tail with black annuli ; head and nape 

 black above. {E. ocellatus, Peters.) 



a. 2 (V. 178; 0. 40). ? Zoological Society. 



h. 2 (V. 177 ; 0. 46). ? College of Surgeons. 



2. Erythrolampms decipiens. 



Tachymenis decipiens, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., JRept. p. 163, pi. liii. 

 fig. A (1895). 



Snout very short, moderately depressed, rounded. Eostral nearly 

 twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; internasals 

 half as long as the praefrontals ; frontal once and one fourth to once 

 and one third as long as broad, longer than its distance from the 

 end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as 

 deep; one praeocular ; one or two postoculars ; temporals 1+1, 

 the first usually absent, fused with the sixth upper labial, which 

 then forms a suture with the parietal ; seven upper labials, third 

 and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the 

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

 17 rows. Ventrals 166-173 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 85 or more. 

 Dark brown, with a yellow, black-edged lateral streak from behind 

 the temple to the end of the tail, and another along the outer row 

 of scales, the lower black border of which extends on the ends of 

 the ventral shields ; an elliptical yellow, black-edged spot on each 

 parietal shield behind the eye ; upper lip yellowish, black-edged ; 

 lower parts yellowish white. 



Total length 630 millim. ; tail (end missing) 190. 



Costa Rica. 



a-c. S (V. 168; C. ?) Irazu, Costa Rica. F. D. Godman, Esq. 



- 2 (V. 173,166; [P.]. (Types.) 



C. ?, ?). 



Erythrolamprus grammophrys. 



Erythrolamprus grammophrys, Dugbs, Proo. Amer. Philos. Socxky, 

 1888, p. 181, fig., and La Naturaleza, (2) i. 1890, p. 402, pi. xxvii. 

 fig. 13. 



Tachymenis grammophrys, Oilnth. Biol, C.-Am., Sept. p. 162 

 (1895). 



Allied to E. imperialis, but loreal much longer than deep, only 

 seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, and scales 

 in 17 rows. Ventrals 175 ; subcaudals 50 or more. Back greyish 

 brown, sides reddish brown ; a whitish line on each side of the 



