PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOURTH SERIES Vol. XXXI, No. 11, pp. 309-327, 10 figs. February 28, 1963 REMARKS ON THE COLUBRID GENUS CHILOMENISCUS (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE)^ by Benjamin H. Banta California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 18, California and Alan E. Leviton California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 18, California and Division of Systematic Biology, Stanford University 111 1860, Cope established the genus Chilomeniscus to accommodate a single species, C. straniineus. Subsequently Cope described three more nom-inal species, and others have since brought the number to seven. Of these four are currently recognized : C. cinctus, C. punctatissimus, C. savagei, and C. stramineus. Recently the authors received on loan from the Chicago Natural History ^Museum one specimen belonging to this genus taken on Cedros Island, off the Pacific coast of central Baja California, Mexico. In attempting to place this specimen it was necessary to re-examine the status of other nominal species. Acknowledgments The authors are first of all indebted to Dr. Robert F. Inger, Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM) for the loan of the Cedros Island speci-men as well as for the loan of other materials of this genus. For the loan of additional specimens the authors wish to thank Mr. Charles M. Bogert and Dr. Richard G. Zweifel, American Museum of Natural History ( AMNH) ; Dr. Doris M. Cochran, United States National Museum (USNM); Dr. Norman I. This work was partially supported liy grants-in-aid from the Johnson and Penrose Funds of the American Philosophical Society. [ 309 ] Marine Biological Laboratory! APR 18 1983 WOODS HOI F tJ\l\R9,
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