430 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



GLOSSARY. 



Anal plate. — The large scale in front of the anus in snakes, 



Antorbital. — ^A small plate which lies immediately in front of 



the eye. 

 Azygous. — Single. Not one of a pair, 

 Carinated. — With a keel or sharp ridge. 



Frontal. — The large plate on the top of the head between the 

 superciliaries. 



Gastrosteges. — Large plates along the belly. 

 Genials. — Large scales behind the mental. 

 Infralabials. — Plates on the lower lip. 

 Internasals. — Scales just behind the rostral. 

 Keel. — A ridge along a scale. 

 Labials. — Plates on the lips. 

 Loral. — See Loreal. 



Loreal. — The plate occupying the space between the nasals and 

 the preoculars. 



Maculate. — Spotted. 



Occipitals. — Plates behind the frontal and superciliaries. 



Parietals. — See Occiptals. 



Postgenials. — Posterior pair of genials. 



Postoculars. — Plates bounding the orbit behind. 



Prefrontal. — Plates just in front of the frontals. 



Pregenials. — Anterior pair of genials. 



Preocular. — Plates bounding the orbit in front. 



Rostral. — Plate at the tip of the snout. 



Scute. — A scale. 



Superciliary. — The plates above the eyes. 



Supralabials. — Plates on the upper lip. 



Supraocular. — Same as superciliaries. 



Urosteges. — Large plates on the lower surface of the tail. 



Labokatoet of Zoology, 

 Univeesitt of Kansas, 

 November 1, 1903. 



