73. HTPSIRHrNCHTTS. 117 



AhffituUa oxyrhyneha, Gilnth. Cat. p. 154 (1858). 

 Leptophis oxyrhynchus, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. 8oc. xviii. 1879, 

 p. 273. 



Head very long and narrow, body extremely slender; snout 

 acutely pointed, strongly projecting, about thrice as long as the eye. 

 Kostral deeper than broad, scarcely visible from above ; internasals 

 much longer than broad, shorter than the prajf rontals ; frontal 

 twice and a half as long as broad, shorter than its distance from the 

 end of the snout or than the parietals; nasal long and narrow, 

 divided or semidivided; prasfrontal in contact with the second 

 labial ; a small loreal between the prseocular and the prefrontal ; 

 one prsB- and two postoculars; temporals 1+2 ; eight upper labials, 

 third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 192-210 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 185-202. Emerald-green above, pale green below; a 

 ■white and yellow lateral streak, running along the lower series of 

 scales ; a black line, edged with white below, on each side of the 

 head, passing through the eye. 



Total length 1270 millim. ; tail 550. 



Santo Domingo. 



2 (V. 210 ; 0. 1 



(J (V. 210; 0.1 



c. <3 (V. 197; 0.200). 



a. 2 (V. 210 ; 0. 185). S. Domingo. 



b. <S (V. 210; 0. 185). Cape Hayti. Hr. EoUe [0.]. 



73. HYPSIRHYNCHUS. 

 Hypsirhynchus, Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 48 (1858). 



Maxillary teeth 14 or 15, slightly increasing in size posteriorly ; 

 anterior mandibular teeth much larger than the posterior. Head 

 slightly distinct from neck ; eye moderate or rather small, with 

 round or subelliptic pupil. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, with 

 apical pits, in 19 rows ; ventrals rounded. TaU. moderate ; sub- 

 caudals in two rows. 



Santo Domingo, West Indies. 



1. Hypsirhynchus ferox. (Plate VT. fig. 1.) 



Hypsirhynchus ferox, Gunth. I. c. p. 49; Cope, Proc. Ac. PJiilad. 



1871, p. 218, and Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 273 ; 



Fischer, Jahrh. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. v. 1888, p. 41. 

 soalai'is, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 72 ; Garm. Proc. Am , 



Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 284. 



Snout rather elongate, acuminate, obliquely truncate, strongly 

 projecting, and slightly turned up at the end. Eostral broader than 

 deep, not or but scarcely visible from above ; internasals as long as 

 broad or a little longer, shorter than the prsefrontals, which may be 



