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Description of the type. — An adult male, M.C.Z. No. 44365, from 

 Valle Nuevo, in the Cordillera Central, southeast of Constanza, 

 Dominican Republic, at 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, collected in 

 August 1938 by P. J. Darlington. Head short and blunt, the distance 

 from anterior corner of eye to tip of snout slightly more than one-half 

 the greatest width of the head (just anterior to the ears); canthus 

 rostralis sharp, composed of three keeled scales, the second slightly the 

 largest; two narrow superciliaries, the first very long, the second 

 short and followed by a double row of small elongate scales; loreal 

 region slightly concave, with five transverse rows of keeled rectangular 

 scales, the lowest row continued backward, completely separating the 

 suboculars from the upper labials; nostrils lateral, scarcely elevated, 

 with six keeled scales between the nasals; rostral about 2){ times as 

 broad as deep, a little narrower than the mentals, in contact with the 

 nasals; frontal region with two broad, low ridges covered with large 



Figure 61. — Audantia shrevei: a, Top of head; b, profile of head. U.S.N.M. No. 107558, 

 paratype, from Valle Nuevo, southeast of Constanza, Dominican Republic. Twice 

 natural size. 



keeled rhomboidal scales converging anteriorly and surrounding a 

 median group of six subequal keeled scales; supraorbital semicircles 

 separated by one row of scales ; supraocular region covered by a patch of 

 enlarged keeled scales arranged more or less in three longitudinal rows, 

 the outer (smallest) row separated from the superciliaries by three rows 

 of very small scales, the inner (largest) from the supraorbital semicircle 

 by one row of scales; occipital scale quite small, separated from the 

 semicircles by two rows of scales; eight supralabials, the posterior ones 

 with a faint longitudinal keel, suture between sixth and seventh 

 falling below center of eye; subocular semicircle composed of six or 

 seven keeled scales, separated from the supralabials by one row of 

 very elongate, keeled scales; a pair of triangular mentals closely in 

 contact medially, their outer borders extending slightly beyond those 

 of rostral; eight infralabials decreasing in size posteriorly, smooth 

 except for a deep hollow in the median ones; one large and two or 

 three smaller rows of malar scales, very distinct where they border 



