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3. Coluber novae-hispanise. 



Seha, Tim. ii. pi. xx. fig. 1 (1735). 

 Cerastes mexicanus, Laur. Syn. Sept. p. 83 (1768). 

 Coluber novsE-hispanioe, Gmel. 8. N. i. p. 1088 (1788). 

 Spilotes variabilis, part., Gi'mth. Cat. p. 99 (1858). 



pullatus auribundus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 300. 



salvinii, Giinth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 125, 



pi. ix. fig. 5, and Biol. C.-Am., Sept. p. 116, pi. xlii. (1894). 



variabilis, Sumichr. Arch. Sc. Pliys. Nat. (2) xlvi. 1873, p. 259. 



variabilis, var. auribundus, Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 50 (1883). 



auribundus. Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 71 ; 



Bocourt, Miss. 8c. Mex., Rept. p. 689, pi. xliv. fig. 5 (1888). 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals as 

 long as broad or a little broader than long, shorter than the pras- 

 frontals ; frontal as long as or a little longer than broad, as long as 

 its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, as long as or a 

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

 little longer; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 or 

 1 + 2 ; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye, seventh 

 and eighth very large ; three to five lower labials in contact with 

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

 the posterior. Scales in 19 rows (17 and 18 in spec. Ji), dorsals more 

 or less distinctly keeled. Ventrals 204-222 ; anal entire ; sub- 

 caudals 115-138. BJaok above, varied with yellow, the yellow 

 forming regular cross bands on the posterior part of the body and on 

 the tail ; belly yellow, with irregular black spots. 



Total length 2120 millim. ; tail 550. 



Mexico and Central America. 



«. 2 (V. 213; 0.119). Mexico. Hr. Hugo Finck [C.]. 



h. Yg! (V. 210; C.120). Mexico. M. SallcS [0.]. 



c. 2 (V. 212 ; 0. 116). Mexico. 



d. Yg. (V. 204; C. 127). Belize. 



e. f. Hgr. (V. 212; C. StannCreek,Brit.Hon- Rev. J. Robertson 

 132) & yg. (V. 217; duras. [0.]. 



0. 130. 

 g. (S (V. 212 ; 0. ?). Atoyac, Guerrero. F. D. Godman, Esq. 



Ji-i ^ (V. 208 ; 0. 134) Huatuzco, Vera Cruz. F. D. Godman, Esq. 



&vg. (V.212; C. 123). [P.]. 



k. Hgr. (V. 215; 0.138). Yzabal, Guatemala. O. Salvin, Esq. [0.]. 



(Type of 8. salvini.) 

 I 2 (V. 220 ; 0. 127). Rio Motagua. F. iD. Godman, Esq. 



[P.]. 



4. Coluber ? melanotropis. 



Dendrophidium melanotropis, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, 



p. 134, pi. xxvi. fig. 1. 

 Elaphis melanotropis, Cope,Bull. U.8. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 



Rostral broader than deep; frontal bell-shaped, wide in front, 

 contracted behind, as long as the parietals ; loreal much longer than 

 deep ; one prseooular, with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2 + 2 ; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering 



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