60. COLFBEE. 31 



/■. $ (V. 168; C.P). Yurimaguas, Hual- Dr. Hahnel [0.]. 



laga River, N.E. 



Peru. 

 g. Yg. (V. 170; 0. 101). Moyobamba, N.E. Hr. A. H. Roff [0.]. 



Peru. 

 /*. Yg. (V. 176; C. 97). Sarayaeu, N.E. Peru. Mr. W. Davis [C.]; 



Messrs. Veitch [P.]. 



2. Coluber corals. 



? Coluber reticularis, Baud. Rept. vi. p. 281 (1803). 



Coluber corais. Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 567 ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 139, 



pi V. figs. 9 & 10 (1837), and Abbild. p. 102, pi. xxviii. figs. 9-11 



(1844). 

 cbsoletus (non Say), Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 61, pi. xii. 



(1842). 



couperi, Holbr. I. c. p. 75, pi. xvi. 



Georgia couperi, Baird %■ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 92 (1863). 

 obsoleta, Baird (f- Gir. I. c. p. 158, and U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. 



ii., Rept. pi. XV. (1859). 

 Spilotes corais. Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 223 (1853) ; Giinih. Cat. p. 98 



(1858); Wucherer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 324; Gilnth. Zool. 



Rec. 1867, p. 140 ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 48, pi. iv. fig. 6 (1876) ; Garm. 



N. Am. Rept. p. 48 (1883) ; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, 



p. 636; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 116 (1894). 

 melanurus, Bum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 224 ; Ccpe, Proc. Ac. Philad. 



1860, p. 564; Jan, I. c. pi. v. fig. 2. 

 erebennus. Cope, I. c. pp. 342 & 364, and Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, 



p. 167 ; Sumichrast, Arch. Sc. Phys. Nat. (2) xlvi. 1873, p. 259. 

 couperi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, pp. 342 & 864; Garm. 



I. c. p. 48. 

 Geoptyas coUaris, Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Iv. 1867, p. 271, pi. iii. 



figs. 4-7. 



flaviventris, Steindachn. I. c. p. 269, pi. iv. figs. 4r-7. 



SpUotes corais, var. melanurus. Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 



1876, p. 135; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 687, pi. xliv. fig. 1 



(1888). 



, var. erebennus. Cope, I. c. 



Ooryphodon constrictor, Jan, I. c. pi. vi. fig. 1. 

 Spilotes obsoletus, Garm. I. c. p. 48. 



corais, var. obsoletus, Bocourt, I. c. p. 689. 



xanthurus, A. E. Brown, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1893, p. 433. 



Eostral broader than deep, visible from above; intern asals as 

 long as broad or a little broader, shorter than the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal as long as broad or a little longer, as long as its distance 

 from the rostral or the end of the snout, much shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal nearly as long as deep ; one prse- or two post- 

 oculars ; rarely a small subocular below the prseocular ; temporals 

 2 + 2; eight (rarely seven) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or third 

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

 anterior chin- shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 17 rows (19 or 21 on the neck), smooth, or 

 with a short and feeble keel, disposed somewhat obliquely in the 



