75. iioPHis. 143 



a blackish streak on the middle of the head and along the anterior 

 partof the back and a blackish lateral streak on the head and body, 

 passing through the eye ; lips and gular region yellowish, variegated 

 ■with brown ; belly uniform yellowish. Pull-grown specimens 

 nearly uniform brown. 



Total length 410 millim. ; tail 125. 



Jamaica. 



a, b-c. Hgr. S (V. 182 ; Bluefields, Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. rP.l. 



C. 110) & yg. (V. 131, (Types.) ' ^^ ' 



134 ; 0. 97, 109). V .^i- / 



d. 2 (V. 132 ; 0. 70). Jamaica. R. Heward, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f. Hgr. cJ (V. 133 ; 0. W. Indies. 



108) & yg. (V. ISO: 



C. 107). 



20. LiopMs temporalis. 



Dromicus temporalis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 370 ; Garm. 

 Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 281. 



Mouth very inferior ; rostral plate prominent, but barely visible 

 from above ; nasals distinct ; internasals small ; frontal broad ; 

 loreal confluent with prseocular ; one or two postoculars ; seven 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; chin-shields equal. 

 Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 167 ; anal divided ; (tail mutilated). 

 Chocolate-brown above, with a yellow lateral streak, edged with 

 blackish above, running along the sutures of the two outer rows of 

 scales ; a blackish plumbeous band along the outer row of scales 

 and the outer ends of the ventrals ; indications of a yellow collar ; 

 belly yellow. 



Length of head and body 430 millim. 



Cuba. 



21. LiopMs flavilatus. 



Dromicus flavilatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1871, p. 222, and Proo. 

 Am. Philos, Soc. xiv. 1877, p. 65 ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 58 

 (1883). 



Closely allied to L. callilcemus, but scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 126 ; subcaudals 77. Colour above a rich golden brown, the scales 

 of the two lower rows on each side broadly gold-edged ; head dark 

 brown, darkest behind, with numerous but obscure paler vermicu- 

 lations ; sides of head paler, with a reddish-brown band from the 

 rostral plate through the eye to the middle of the last labial ; labials 

 whitish, with black dots on the posterior ; below white, lower labials 

 sparsely black-dotted; a pair of pale dots on the common occipital 

 suture. 



S.E. United States (F. Carolina to Florida). 



