158 COLUBEID^. L' '' ' 



(fUif -ZtJ- j^'- .: //^ r 



Tcyi^^o . '^P_ "^J 'W AporopMs lineatus. 



Coluber lineatus, lAnn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. SO, pis. xii. fig. 1, and xx. 



fig. 1 (1754), and S. N. i. p. 382 (1766) ; Baud. Bept. vii. p. 25 



(1803). 

 Herpetodryas lineatus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 191 (1837). 

 Dromicus lineatus, part., Bum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 655 (1854) ; CHinth. 



Cat. p. 134 (1858). 

 lineatus, Jan, Icon. Gen. 24, pi. vi. fig. 4 (1867) ; Fischer, Arch. 



f. Nat. 1882, p. 285. 

 Lygophis lineatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76. 



dilepis, Cope, I. c. p. 81. 



Aporophis lineatus. Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 191. 

 dilepis, Cojoe, I. c . <^yv-*,-»3t -^^i-t***^- • 



Eostral broader than deep, visible from above ; posterior border 

 of internasals more than twice as broad as the anterior ; suture 

 between the internasals as long as or shorter than that between the 

 praefrontals ; frontal narrow, twice to twice and one third as long 

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

 as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or deeper than long ; one or 

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

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

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

 little longer than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 165- 

 178 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 79-93. Yellowish or pale olive 

 above, with a brown black-and-yellow-edged vertebral band com- 

 mencing on the snout ; a black or brown lateral line, widening on 

 the side of the head and passing through the eye ; lower parts 

 yellowish white. 



Total length 650 millim. ; tail 190. 



Guianas, Brazil, Paraguay. 



2. Aporophis flavifrenatus. 



Lygophis flavifrenatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 80. 

 Dromicus amabOis, Jan, Icon. Gen. 24, pi. v. fig. 2 (1867). 

 Aporophis flavifrenatus, Cope, Proc. Am. Phihs. Soc. xxii 1885 



p. 191. 

 Dromicus flavifrenatus, Bouleng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (5) xviii 1886 



p. 433. ■ ' 



Eostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above • 

 posterior border of internasals more than twice as broad as the 

 anterior ; suture between the internasals as long as or shorter than 



