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stri})es are not characteristic of »JE', strigüatus» . In some specimens they are dist- 

 inct anteriorly, hut in other more or less broken up in spots or cross bands. From 

 this it is clear, that the differences between E. stria tus and E- 

 strigilatus stated by Cope, are not to be maintained, and having 

 not been able to find an}^ other, I agree with Boulengee and 

 Stejneger in referring both to the same species, E. striatus Fischer. 



This species, which I observed only near the settlements, was commonly 

 called by the natives chicken- or fowl -snake. 



Ungalia cana, Cope. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Philadelphia, Vol. 20 (1868), p. 129. 



This species is founded on specimens from Great Inagua. It is recorded from 

 the same locality by later collectors (Cope 10, 11) but is not known from other 

 places. 



Ungalia curta, Garman. 

 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Vol. 24 (1887), p. 279. 



According to Barbour (1) this species, of wich there are two specimens, so 

 labelled from New Providence, in the Mus. Comp. ZooL, is to be referred to U. 

 pardalis Gdnbl. (See this species). 



Ungalia maculata, Adtt. 

 Cope, Bibron, Dumeril et Bibron, Gray. 



Under this name several specimens are described from the Bahamas. They 

 are all to be referred to U. pardalis Gundl. 



Ungalia pardalis^ Gundlaoh. 



Arch. f. Naturg. 1840, p. 359. 

 Syn U. maculata autt. part. 



I collected many specimens of this species on Andros (at Mastic Point and 

 Stanniard Creek). They were always found under stones. On the west side of North 

 Andros this species seems to be absent. It was called by the natives » doctor-snake » 

 or » thunder-snake ». 



All the specimens I have examined certify Barbour's opinion (1) that the 

 Bahama form- (recorded from New Providence, Andros, Eleuthera) belongs to U. 

 pardalis and not to U. maculata. Barbour also refers U. curta Garman to U. 

 pardalis. In the specimens I collected, the tail is black, the underside only partly. 

 One specimen is grey, the other are brown, with or without black spots, most distinct 

 in young specimens. In some specimens some scales are Yery feebly keeled. 

 Sometimes two praeoculars. Inferior postocular sometimes united with the sixth 

 superior labial. One specimen has 27 rows of scales, three 23, the other 25. The 

 ventrals and subcandals vary as showed by following shemes. 



