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Drymobius (Eudryas) boddaertii, Bocourt, I. c. p. 720, pi. li. figs. 1 

 &2. 



dorsalis, Bocourt, I. o, p. 722, fig. 2. 



caeruleus, Bocourt, I. c. p. 727, fig. 4 



pleii, Bocourt, I. c. p. 728, fig. 8. 



Zamenis melanolomus, Qunth. Biol. C.-Am., Bept. p. 122 (1894). 



Maxillary teeth 22 to 25, posterior moderately or feebly enlarged. 

 Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; intemasals 

 shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and a half to twice as 

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

 the snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal 

 longer than deep ; one praeocular, rarely touching the frontal ; two 

 (rarely three) postoculars ; temporals 2+2 or 2+3 (rarely 1 + 2); 

 nine (rarely eight) upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth (or fourth 

 and fifth, or third, fourth, and fifth) entering the eye; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals obtusely 

 angulate, 163-204 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 84-136. Coloration 

 very variable. 



Total length 1090 millim. ; tail 310. 



Tropical America. 



A. Brownish, greyish, or olive above, uniform or with a pair of 

 light streaks along part or the whole of the body ; the scales 

 sometimes black-edged ; a more or less distinct dark streak on 

 each side of the head, through the eye ; belly yellowish, uniform 

 or dotted with olive ; throat sometimes spotted or marbled with 

 brown. (C. boddaertii, Sentz.) 



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