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up ' yaguas, ' expanded bases of the leaves of royal and cocoanut palms. Where 

 there is a grove of these trees in an orchard or some other wooded locality, the 

 curled up fallen leaves will often be found to contain this snake. I never, how- 

 ever, came across a specimen where the leaves fell so as to be exposed to the full 

 force of the sun. The species is strictly nocturnal and evidently does not prowl 

 about in the open, unwooded country. 



The Museum had several specimens from "Cuba" before the receipt of the 

 series from Soledad in 1912. In 1913 I had a fine series of well-preserved ex- 

 amples given me by Mr. C. T. Ramdsen who took them in the region about 

 Guantanamo. In addition to the bluish and reddish phases of coloration two of 

 these are clear unmarked light buff. This species is evidently the most variable 

 in coloration of any in the genus. 



Tropidophis partialis (Gundlach). 



Gundlach, Archiv. naturg, 1840, 1, p. 359. Boulbngee, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1893, 1, p. 113. 

 Stejneger, the Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 336. 



The Bahaman " thunder snake" has been referred to T. maculata by Cope, 

 but incorrectly, as I have identified specimens with this species (Bull. M. C. Z., 

 1904, 46, p. 59; Amer. nat., 1906, 40, p. 230) from New Providence; and Stej- 

 neger has since agreed to this identification. 



The species has been found on Cuba, New Providence, Andros, and Eleu- 

 thera Islands. 



A specimen No. 6,114, M. C. Z. from Cuba, is labeled in Garman's hand as 

 Ungalia curta, and probably served him as the type of that species. He gave 

 Cuba as the locality, and this is the only Cuban specimen having such a label. 



The species is a synonym of the above. 



I did not meet with this species during my collecting trips in Cuba. 



Tropidophis maculata (Bibron). 



Bibron, Sagra's Hist. Cuba. Rept., 1843, p. 212, pi. 24. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1893, 

 1, p. 112. 



This species may possibly be a composite one. Cope held that Haitian 

 individuals were distinct from others, and proposed for them the name of T. 

 haetiana. They have not been shown to be really different. Nevertheless, at 

 present only a few specimens have been recorded from the islands where the 

 species occurs, and large series will unfortunately be increasingly difficult to 

 obtain. In Cuba the species is far from common, while on Jamaica and Haiti 

 the mongoose is already omnipresent. The snake is also recorded from the 



