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scales, the upper the smaller ; about seven upper and five lower labials 

 to a point below the center of the eye, the few behind this point 

 becoming smaller (the upper labials on both sides have suffered a 

 slight injury) ; upper surfaces covered with granular scales which are 

 smaller middorsally, larger on the flanks and on the snout, and largest 

 on the tail where they merge into overlapping hexagonal scales arranged 

 in symmetrical transverse rows; about 27 lateral scales and about 30 

 dorsal scales equal to the distance between tip of snout and center of 

 eye; can thai scales not particularly enlarged; eye a little nearer to ear 

 than to end of snout, its diameter not quite half the length of the 



Figure 32. — Aristelliger expectaius: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin; d, underside of 

 forefoot; e, underside of hindfoot. U.S.N.M. No. 75908, type, from Jacmel, Haiti. Three 

 times natural size. 



snout; 5 or 6 superciliary scales on the eyelid, the last one projecting 

 as a short palpebral spine above the eye ; ear-opening irregularly oval, 

 its greatest diameter about once and a half the height of the first 

 supralabial, its distance from the eye equal to the distance between 

 eye and nostril; temples very minutely granular; mental broad, tri- 

 angular, considerably wider than the rostral, its labial margin almost 

 three times as wide as the first infralabial; two pairs of chinshields, 

 the inner ones in contact with each other behind the mental, the scales 

 following these and bordering the infralabials small, rather abruptly 

 merging into the minute granules which cover the entire throat; 



