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versidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Cerro de las Campanas s/n, Querétaro, Querétaro 76017, México; GUSTAVO E. QUINTERO-DÍAZ, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Biología, Avenida Universidad No. 940, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes 20131, México.

TROPIDODRYAS STRIATICEPS (Jiboinha). DIET. Tropidodryas striaticeps is a semi-arboreal snake widely distributed throughout eastern Brazil (Guedes and Marques 2011. Check List 7:78– 82; Sousa et al. 2012. Biota Neotrop. 12:35–49). Despite its wide distribution, little is known about its ecology. Tropidodryas spp. are known to feed on lizards, frogs, rodents, and small birds (Vrcibradic et al. 2012. Herpetol. Notes 5:471–472). Here we report two cases of predation by Tropidodryas striaticeps on novel prey items. On 11 March 2009 at the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil (21.742667°S, 43.29225°W, datum WGS 84; elev. 709 m), a male T. striaticeps (SVL = 513 mm, tail length = 150 mm) was collected in an Atlantic Forest fragment. After being handled, the specimen regurgitated a bird, Sporophila sp. (Emberizidae). Both the snake and the bird are deposited in Coleção Herpetológica da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (voucher number: CHUFJF 0598A and CHUFJF 0598B). The advanced stage of prey decomposition precluded species identification but three species of Sporophila are known from the study area: S. frontalis, S. falcirostris, and S. caerulescens (Manhães and Loures-Ribeiro 2011. Biota Neotrop. 11:275–286). On 30 January 2013 at the municipality of Castelo, Espírito Santo, Brazil (20.511839°S, 41.090467°W, datum WGS 84; elev. 1453 m), a female T. striaticeps (SVL = 761 mm, tail length = 206 mm) was collected in a rock outcrop beside a stream in an Atlantic Forest fragment. We found the snake feeding on a recently dead lizard, identified as Tropidurus torquatus. Both the snake and the lizard are deposited in Coleção Herpetológica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (voucher numbers: UFMG 1692–1693). SCG thanks Cordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for financial support and also ICMBio for authorization of animal capture (number 17074-1). BMS thanks Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for financial support. We thank Celso Rios for field assistance.

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SAMUEL CAMPOS GOMIDES (e-mail: [email protected]), MARCUS THADEU TEIXEIRA SANTOS, BRUNO BARBOSA FEHLBER, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP: 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; MARCO ANTÔNIO MANHÃES, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Campus Universitário, Bairro São Pedro, CEP 36036900, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil; BERNADETE MARIA DE SOUSA, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Bairro Martelos, 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil; and PAULO CHRISTIANO DE ANCHIETTA GARCIA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP: 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

TROPIDOPHIS MACULATUS. MAXIMUM SIZE. On 11 February 2007, CAM collected a female Tropidophis maculatus in Río Baracoa, Bauta, La Habana, Cuba, resting under a stone in burned grassland. This specimen (MFP 12506, Museo de Historia Natural “Felipe Poey,” Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba) measured 450 mm SVL and 495 mm total length. The maximum length previously reported for this species is 375 mm SVL in a male (Domínguez and Moreno 2006. Herpetol. Rev. 37:355–356), but Bibron (1840. In de la Sagra [ed.], Historia Física, Política y Natural de la Isla de Cuba, vol. IV, pp. 1–143, Imprenta y Litografía de Maulde et Renou, Paris), in the original description of this species, measured an individual that was 419 mm SVL. Bibron (op. cit.) did not note the sex nor voucher number; he only stated the specimens formed part of Mr. la Sagra’s collection. Thus, our specimen appears to be the largest T. maculatus on record. JAVIER TORRES, Departamento de Biología Animal y Humana, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de la Habana, Calle 25 #455 e/ J e I, Vedado, Plaza, CP 10400, La Habana, Cuba (e-mail: [email protected]); CARLOS A. MARTÍNEZ-MUÑOZ, Empresa Nacional para la Protección de la Flora y la Fauna, territorio Villa Clara, Carretera Central, banda a Placetas, Km 306, Santa Clara, CP 50400, Villa Clara, Cuba.

Herpetological Review 45(2), 2014