. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 126 COLUBEID.'E. a, b. 2 (V. 211; C. 120) & yg. Havti. Ilr. RoUe [C.]. (V. 213; C. 118). c. $, head imperfect (V. 214; C. ?). ? Zoological Soc. 9. Dromicus exiguus. Dromicus exiguns, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1802, 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 COLUBEID.'E. a, b. 2 (V. 211; C. 120) & yg. Havti. Ilr. RoUe [C.]. (V. 213; C. 118). c. $, head imperfect (V. 214; C. ?). ? Zoological Soc. 9. Dromicus exiguus. Dromicus exiguns, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1802, 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 pne- and two postoculars ; eiglit upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; anterior chin-shields shorter than the posterior. Scales iu 19 rows. Ventrals 137-140; anal divided; subcaudals 80-S3. Above light brown or yellowish, densely pixnctulated with darker ; the median dorsal region of a deeper shade; distant dark brown 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 veutrals. Total length 433 millim.; tail 132 (%)e). West Indies (St. Thomas, St. John). a. Yg. (V. 128; C. 83). St. Thomas. ' Challenger.' 75. LIOPHIS. Liophis, part., Wai/l. Si/st. Amph. p. 187 (1830); Dinn. S{ Pihr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 697 (); Giinth. Cat. Col. S/i. p. 42 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. P/ii/s. ii. 1863, p. 287; Cope, Proc. Ac. PhUad. 1862, p. 76. Coroneila, part., Sclileg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 50 (1837j. Xeuodon, part., Hcldey. I. c. p. 80 ; Dum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 753 ; Giinth. I. c. p. 53. Herpetodryas, part., Schler/. I. c. p. 173. Dromicus, part., JJibr. in R. de la Sar/ra, Hist. Cuba, Erp. p. 221 (1843); hum. i^- Bibr. vii. p. 646; Giinth. I. c. p. 126; Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 76; Jan, Elenco sist. OJid. p. 66 (1863). Fig.
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