134 COLTJBKID^. 



8. Liophis melanotus. 



Coluber melanotus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 534 (1802). 



raninus, Merr. Tent. p. 106 (1820). 



vittatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1845, p. 242. 



Dromicus melanotus, Oiinth. Cat. p. 133 (1858) ; Oarm. Proc. Am. 



Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 282. 

 Liophis vittatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 207. 



melanonotus. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 253. 



melanotus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 298, and 



Icon. Gen. 18, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1866). 



Eye moderate ; snout short. Eostral nearly twice as broad as 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long, shorter 

 than the praefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds to twice as long 

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

 as or a little shorter than the parietals : loreal deeper than long ; 

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

 fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a 

 little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 obtusely angulate laterally, 144^157 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 

 53-65. Length of tail 4| to 5 times in the total length. Yel- 

 lowish ; vertebral region (4 or 5 scales wide) black, with a white 

 and black streak on each side ; the vertebral stripe narrower on the 

 nape, and sometimes broken up into spots ; the dorso-lateral streaks 

 usually broken up into spots on the nape ; head oUve above, with 

 a black lateral streak passing through the eye ; upper lip and lower 

 parts uniform yellowish white. 



Total length 610 millim. ; tail 140. 



Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada. 



a-d. S (V. 148, 151 ; 0. Rosario de Cucuta, Mr. 0. Webber [C.]. 



64, 61) & S (V. 151, Colombia. 



150 : 0. 66, 65). 



e. ? (V. 144 ; C. 58). Cartagena. Capt. Barth [P.]. 



/. <J (V. 148; C.57). Sta. Marta. 



g. Yg. (V. 144 ; C. 61). Colombia. 



h. S (V. 163 ; 0. 53). Venezuela. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



i. $ (V. 145; C. 56). Tobago. W. J. A. Ludlam, 



Esq. [P.]. 



9. Liophis almadensis. 



Natrix almadensis, Wagl. in Spix, Sei-p. Bras. p. SO, pi. x. fig. 3 



(1824). 

 Liophis conirostris, Giinth. Cat. p. 46 (1868), and Zool. Pec. 1866, 



p. 126. 

 almadensis. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 78; Boettg. 



Zeitschr.f. ges. Naturw. Iviii. 1885, p. 228 ; Bouleng. Ann. 8^ Mag. 



N. H. (5) XV. 1885, p. 194, & xviii. 1886, p. 432. 

 Lygopbis conirostris. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76. 

 Liophis wagleri, part., Jan, Arch. Zool.' Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 297, 



and Icon. G4n. 18, pi. iii. figs. 2 & 3 (1866). 

 ? Liophis verecundus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. p. 300. 



