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Poole. Head fairly short, rather high; pupil vertically elliptical; snout 

 obtusely rounded, very slightly longer than the distance from the eye 

 to the ear opening, which is very minute and rounded ; forehead slightly 

 concave ; limbs and body moderate ; digits slender, narrow at the base, 

 the scales under the basal joint slightly enlarged; 19 lamellae under the 

 fourth toe ; upper parts covered with small even granules, about 27 to 

 30 dorsal ones equaling the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the center of the eye; granules on the snout slightly larger; rostral 

 approximately triangular, with the apex cut off, and a long median 

 cleft; nostril between the rostral and three or four surrounding scales, 

 of which the supranasals are considerably enlarged and separated from 

 each other by two granules; five upper and four lower labials, succes- 

 sively diminishing to a point beneath the center of the eye; posterior 

 labials ill defined; mental very large, truncate behind, in contact with 



Figure 29. — Gonaiodes notatus: a, Top of head; b, side of head and scapular pattern; c, 

 chin and throat; d, ventral scales. U.S.N.M. No. 74013, from Diquini Cave, Haiti. Three 

 times natural size. 



three slightly enlarged chin shields followed by others passing gradually 

 into the minute granules of the gular region. Ventral scales larger 

 than dorsals, about 13 or 14 equaling the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the center of the eye, flat, rounded, and imbricating. 

 Tail (partly reproduced) cylindrical, tapering, blunt at the tip, a little 

 longer than head and body, covered above with uniform, small, slightly 

 imbricate scales, inferiorly with larger scales, those of the median series 

 enlarged and irregular in shape. Subfemoral scales large, equal in 

 size to the largest of the postabdominals, and abruptly changing to the 

 very small granular scales of the postfemoral regions. 



Color (in alcohol): Dorsum olive-gray, darkening slightly toward 

 snout. Throat white with lateral reticulations of geranium pink. 

 Belly pale olive-gray; bottom of tail white. Upper and posterior 

 lower labials with black markings. In front of shoulder a very irregu- 



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