Vol. 59, pp. 17-20 March 11, 1946 PROCEEDINGS or THB .! > ■ -BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTOiJ>'=^'^''* '^ T" 5-1946 A SMALL HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTION FROM EASTERN PERU. EMMETT REID DUNN, Haverford College. Dr. Doris Cochran of the United States National Museum recently sent me for identification a Caecilian and twelve snakes from Peru. The material was sent in by Mr. J. G. Sanders in 1944, and bears the data "Fundo Sinchono, 4600-5000 feet, Prov. Loretta, Peru." This cinchona plan-tation is in the Province of Loreta, in the northeastern part of Peru. The nearest town is Tinga Maria in Huanuco Province over the Andean Divide, 72 Km. to the west. Caecilia pachynema GQnther. No. 119008. A specimen 1030 mm. long, with 146 primaries and no secondaries. Tropidophis tdczanowskyi (Steindachner). No. 119009. This seems to be the first South American Tropidophis to reach this country, and the seventh to be recorded. It is a female 268 mm. long, tail 33 mm. Dorsals 23-21, keeled save for the lower four rows; ventrals 152; anal single; caudals 27; upper labials 8, third and fourth in orbit on right side, third in orbit on left; lower labials 10, two in contact with geneials; suture between internasals very indistinct; two cross rows of plates between internasals and frontal, five in the anterior one (=two loreals and three anterior prefrontals), two in the posterior (= posterior pre-frontals); one preocular; three postoculars, the lower almost a subocular; temporals 3-3; parietals entire; rich brown above, yellow below; black markings on temporals and as vague dots on adjacent scales of rows 2-3, 5-7, and vertebrals and paravertebrals (= three vague rows of spots on each side) ; large circular black blotches below, which may extend onto first scale row; maxillary teeth 18, subequal. The specimen is unique in having separate loreals (they are fused with the anterior prefrontals in all other known Tropidophis). The count of maxillary teeth (18) is distinctly higher than that of Antillean Tropido-phis (12-15), but agrees with the number (19) given for the only other South American specimen for which this count is recorded (type of paucisqimmis). 3— P«oq. Bioh. Soc. Wash., Vol. 59, 1946. (17)
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