. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LiOPHOLiDOPHis (Colubridae) FROM MADAGASCAR • Cadle 429. Figure 29. Liopholidophls infrasignatus (Gunther). Dorsal and ventral views of specimen from the RNP (MCZ 180359). cording to MacPhee (1987).'^ Other recent specimens of Liopholidophis infrasigna- tus have come from the same vicinity (Do- mergue, 1973:1405; two specimens of "thieli" in table II from Tsarafidy). Rax- worthy and Nussbaum (1994:8) cited MacPhee (1987:5) as the authority that the correct name for this locahty is "Ankafi- na," not
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LiOPHOLiDOPHis (Colubridae) FROM MADAGASCAR • Cadle 429. Figure 29. Liopholidophls infrasignatus (Gunther). Dorsal and ventral views of specimen from the RNP (MCZ 180359). cording to MacPhee (1987).'^ Other recent specimens of Liopholidophis infrasigna- tus have come from the same vicinity (Do- mergue, 1973:1405; two specimens of "thieli" in table II from Tsarafidy). Rax- worthy and Nussbaum (1994:8) cited MacPhee (1987:5) as the authority that the correct name for this locahty is "Ankafi- na," not "Ankafana," based on the desig- nation in descriptions of small mammals collected by Cowan at this locality. How- ever Carleton and Schmidt (1990) used the two names interchangeably. Boulenger (1893:247) corrected Gunther's (1882) er- roneous designation "Arkafina" to "An- ; Cowan (1883) himself was prob- ably responsible for the confusion: in the text he refers at least twice to the locality as "Ankafana" (, p. 147), but on the accompanying map it is plotted as "An- ; '- The elevation is 1,300-1,540 m according to Rax- worthy and Nussbaum (1994). The FTM 1:1,000,000 map shows a peak at this locahty of 1,679 m. On Cowan's (1883) map, Tsarafidy is denoted as 'Ttsaf- idy. " Domergue (1973) reported occasional presence of two apical pits in Liopholi- dophis "; I noted the presence of 0- 2 apical pits, the number highly variable within and between individuals. Parker (1925:391, footnote) observed much vari- ation in apical pit occurrence in species of the stumpffi group; he noted that one of the three syntypes of infrasignatus had apical pits (number not stated), whereas the other two lacked them. Domergue (1973) reported that the Mal- agasy name Menamaso ("orange eye") was used for Liopholidophis '^thieli" in the Perinet region, in reference to the often- orangish coloration
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