21,2 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, I 201 
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Description of type——Rostral very narrow,.small, higher than 
wide, minutely visible above, not as wide as mental; internasals 
five-sided, small, about one-third the size of prefrontals, the 
sutures with nasal and prefrontal equal, forming their shortest 
sutures with loreal; prefrontals five-sided, entering eye, sutures 
with frontal and loreal nearly equal; the sutures formed with 
internasals transversely straight, those with frontal together 
form a slight angle; frontal broader than long, the anterior edge 
only very slightly angular, not reaching anterior to eyes; parie- 
tals more than twice as long as wide, forming a mutual suture 
for more than half their length; nostril pierced in a partially 
divided nasal; postnasal present on right side (fused with loreal 
on left) ; loreal large, much elongate, entering eye on right side, 
failing to do so by a short distance on left side; supraocular 
small, as long as eye, longer than broad; a small postnasal; five 
upper labials, third and fourth entering eye, fifth very large, 
touching parietal; two temporals posterior to fifth labial border- 
' ing parietal; a scale directly behind fifth labial might be re- 
garded a sixth labial save that it appears to be behind angle of 
mouth; mental moderate, touching anterior chin shields, which 
are nearly three times as long as wide; posterior chin shields 
about half as long as anterior, forming a mutual suture for less 
than half their length; five lower labials, three touching anterior 
chin shields; ventrals, 140; anal single; subcaudals, 15; scales 
smooth, in fifteen rows, without apical pits. 
Color in life—Deep ultramarine with yellow-green to blue 
iridescence; a spot on the chin cream; ventrals each with a bluish 
band followed by a lighter area; parietals darker than body; a 
few yellowish spots in front of anus; underside of tail colored 
as on back. 
Measurements of Pseudorhabdium minutum sp. nov. 
mm. 
Total length 150 
Snout to vent 139 
Tail 11 
Width of head 5 
Length of head, to parietals 6 
Width of body 5 
Remarks.—The species is related to Pseudorhabdiwm mena- 
marz Taylor but differs in numerous characters. The tail of 
this new species is proportionately much shorter, with fewer 
ventrals; the markings and color are different; the frontal is 
shorter and truncate in front, and the rostral is smaller. It is 
impossible to tell whether the presence of a postnasal is the 
