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Green Cay, characterized chiefly by the shortness of the fifth toe and the 

 smallness of the interparietal. 



Leiocephalus loxogeammus Cope. 

 Leiocephalus loxogrammus Cope, 1887, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. x, p. 437. 



Mr. Eiley during the last Expedition obtained a young specimen from Wat- 

 lings Island of this distinct species which hitherto was only known from Eum 

 Cay, the type locality. It shows no tangible difEerences from the types. 



SNAKES. 

 Leptotyphlops albifrons (Wagler). 

 Stenostoma albifrons Wagler, 1824, Serp. Brasll., p. 68. 



Cope's identification of a blind snake from Watlings Island as Stenostoma 

 melanoterma, described by himself from Paraguay, appears less startling if 

 we accept Boulenger's verdict that the latter is a synonym of L. albifrons 

 which is widely distributed over South America and Central America. The 

 latter author also records specimens from Grenada and Antigua, among the 

 Lesser Antilles. This species has not been found in Haiti as yet, but as 

 this island is very imperfectly explored, no importance attaches to this nega- 

 tive evidence. 



Ttphlops lumbricalis (Linne). 

 Anguis lumbricalis Linn6, 1758, Syst. Nat., lOth ed., i, p. 228. 



The only specimen known from the Bahamas was taken on Abaco. It 

 deviates slightly from the general type which is found in nearly all the West 

 Indian islands, but whether it represents a depauperate form of this species or 

 only an individual aberration cannot be determined from a single specimen. 



Epicrates chrysogastee (Cope). 

 Homalogaster chrysogaster Cope, 1871, Proc. Am. Phllos. Soc, vol. xi, p. 557. 



As I have already pointed out in my Herpetology of Porto Eico,'' E. chryso- 

 gaster, from Turks Islands, appears to merit separation from E. fordii 

 (Giinther), its near ally in Haiti. The latter has only 33 to 37 scale rows and 

 69 to 78 dorsal spots, while E. chrysogaster is said to have 43 scale rows 

 and 54 dorsal spots. 



"Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1902, p. 694. 



