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chin-shielde. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 207 ; anal divided ; 

 subeaudals 26. Pale reddish above, with, a dark brown vertebral 

 line and a dark brown lateral streak on the second, third, and 

 fourth rows of scales ; a pair of rather indistinct brown lines on 

 the fifth and sisth rows of scales ; head dark brown above, with a 

 round yellowish spot on the snout and a yellowish spot on the third 

 and fourth upper labials ; a yellowish nuchal collar ; end of tail 

 black ; lower parts white. 



Total length 217 mUIim. ; tail 18. 



North-eastern Peru. 



a. tJ (V. 207 ; 0. 26). Cayaria. Mr. W. Davis [0.1 ; 



Messrs. Veitch [??]. 



7. Apostolepis dorbignyi. 



Calamaria d'orbignyi, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 30 (1837). 



Elapomorphus orbignyi, Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 884 (1854); Jan, 

 Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys, ii. 1862, p. 43, and Icon. Oin. 14, pi. i, 

 fig. 2 (1865) ; Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. xxix. 1884, p. 578. 



Apostolepis orbignyi. Cope, R-oo. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 524. 



Snout feebly projecting; eye minute. Eostral a little broader 

 than deep, the portion visible from above measuring about half its 

 distance from the frontal ; latter shield once and a half as long as 

 broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; nasal not in contact with the prseocular ; a 

 single postoeular ; six upper labials, second and third entering the 

 eye, fifth and sixth in contact with the parietal ; symphysial nearly 

 touching the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the 

 posterior; four lower labials in contact with the chin-shields, 

 fourth largest. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 160 ; anal divided ; 

 subeaudals 37. Sed above ; head and nape black, separated by a 

 white collar ; snout and fourth upper labials whitish ; end of tail 

 black, except the terminal shield which is white ; lower parts 

 white. 



Total length 384 millim. ; tail 49. 



ChiU (?) *. 



8. Apostolepis erythronota. 



Elapomorphus erythronotua, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1880, p. 222 ; 



Strauch, Bull. Ac. 8t. PStersb. xxix. 1884, p. 579. 

 Apostolepis erythronotus lineatus. Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 



zxiv. 1887, p. 56. 



Form and lepidosis as in A. dorbignyi, but rostral larger, as in 

 A. Jkivitorquata, nasal in contact with the praeocular, and five 

 lower labials in contact with the chin-shields. Ventrals 244-251 : 



* As in many other specimens brouglit home by d'Orbigny, the locality is 

 doubtfuL I have recorded the species from Paraguay througb confusion with 

 A. awbinigra. 



