. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 126 COLTTBEID^. a, b. 2 (V. 211; C. 120) & yg. Hayti. Hr. Kolle [C.]. (V. 213 ; C. 118). c. 5, head imperfect (V. 214; 0. P). ? Zoological See. 9. Dromicus exiguus. Dromicus exiguus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 79 ; Garm. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 282. Eye moderate ; snout prominent. Eostral nearly twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; frontal once and two thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal very small; o
. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 126 COLTTBEID^. a, b. 2 (V. 211; C. 120) & yg. Hayti. Hr. Kolle [C.]. (V. 213 ; C. 118). c. 5, head imperfect (V. 214; 0. P). ? Zoological See. 9. Dromicus exiguus. Dromicus exiguus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 79 ; Garm. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 282. Eye moderate ; snout prominent. Eostral nearly twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; frontal once and two thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal very small; one prae- and two postoculars ; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; anterior chin-shields shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 137-140; anal divided; subcaudals 80-83. Above light brown or yellowish, densely punctulated with darker ; the median dorsal region of a deeper shade; distant dark br9wn dots sometimes forming two parallel series along the back ; a dark brown stripe along the fourth row of scales nearly to the end of the tail, continuous with a head-band which passes through the eye; beneath yellowish, dotted with brown, especially towards the ex- tremities of the ventrals. Total length 433 millim.; tail 132 {Cope). West Indies (St. Thomas, St. John), a. Yg. (V. 128; C. 83). St. Thomas. ' Challenger.' 75. LIOPHIS. Liophis, part., Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 187 (1830); Bum. ^ Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 697 (1854); Giinth. Cat. Col. iSn. p. 42 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1868, p. 287; 6W, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76. Coroneila, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 50 (1837). Xenodon, part., Schleg. I. c. p. 80 ; Bum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 753; Giinth. I. c. p. 53. Herpetodryas, part., Schleg. I. c. p. 173. Dromicus, part., Bibr. in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Erp. p. 221 (1843); Bum. (^ Bibi: vii. p. 646; Giinth. I. c. p. 126; Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76; Jan, Elencosist. Ofid. p. 66 (1863). Kg. Maxillary a
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