81. EHADIN^A. 179 



C. Ends of ventrals and four outer rows of scales closely speckled 

 with blackish; yellow lateral streak interrupted on the 

 temple. 



k. Yg. (V. 166 ; C. 130). Amula, Guerrero. Mr. H. H. Smith [C] ; 



F. D. Godman, Esq. 

 [P.]. 

 I, m. Hgr. S (V. 156 ; S. Mexico. F. D. Godman, Esq. 



C. 125) & ? (V. 169 : rp.l 



C. ?). ^ -^ 



Bhadincea fulviceps. Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 1886, 

 p. 279, from Panama, appears to be very closely allied to E. vittata. 



25. RhadinsBa laureata. 



Dromicus laureatua, Ounth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. S. (4) i. 1868, p. 419, 

 pi. xix. fig. E ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Mept. p. 710, pi. xlv. 

 fig. 1 (1890) ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rent. p. 112, pi. xl. fig. A 

 (1893). 



Rhadinsea loreata, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. viii. 1876, p. 140. 



Eye rather small. Eostral twice as broad as deep, scarcely 

 visible from above; internasals much broader than long, much 

 shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and a half to once and 

 two thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as or a little 

 longer than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; 

 seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; four 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. Ven- 

 trals 159-164 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 85-95. Head and 

 vertebral region dark brown, sides yellowish brown or pale reddish, 

 with an ill-defined darker lateral streak, on and below which the 

 scales are speckled with black ; a fine yellow line round the snout 

 on the canthus rostralis, extending posteriorly to the second temporal 

 or to the last labial shield ; a crescentic white black-edged line may 

 border the head posteriorly ; a white streak on the upper lip, edged 

 with black above ; labials speckled with brown ; lower parts uniform 

 white or with a few minute blackish dots. 



Total length 510 miUim. ; tail 170. 



Mexico. 



a. c? (V. 163 ; 0. 96). City of Mexico. Mr. Doorman [C.l. 



(Type.) 

 j_e. J (V. 164, 163,159; La Cumbre de los Dr. A. C. BuUer [C,]. 



C. 87, 90, 90) & hgx. An-astrados, Jalisco. 



(V. 160; C. 85). 



26. Rhadin^ea godmani. 



Dromicus godmanni, Ounth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. S. (3) xv. 1865, 



p. 94. 

 Rhadin»a godmanii, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. viii. 1876, p. 139. 

 Henicognathus godmanii, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Bept. p. 631, 



pi. xl. fig. 6 (1886). 



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