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five infralabials, the first small, the last four large and subequal ; first 

 pair of chin shields completely in contact; between infralabials and 

 chin shields a wedge composed of a single series of small scales extend- 

 ing anteriorly to the middle of the third infralabial; chin and throat 

 covered with granules of fairly regular size, becoming somewhat larger, 

 however, on the jaws below the ears; on the portion between the throat 

 folds (the mesoptychium) several rows of larger hexagonal scales, which 

 attain their maximum development in the center, where a group of 

 about a dozen enlarged scales are prominent ; back, sides, and upper 

 part of limbs covered with fine, uniform granules, except the upper 

 arm, which is covered above by large imbricate scales; about 28 dorsal 

 granules in the standard distance from center of eye to tip of snout; 

 under side of body with 8 longitudinal and 33 transverse rows of rec- 

 tangular plates; three large preanal shields forming a triangle; on the 

 lower arm two series of very wide antebrachial plates, the outer one 

 of which continues along the upper arm, becoming rather narrow at the 

 elbow ; in addition to this antebrachial row on the upper arm there are 

 four other rows behind it, the last (the post-antebrachial) having in- 

 creasingly wider scales as it nears the elbow joint; underside of thigh 

 covered with about six rows of hexagonal plates, one row of which is 

 considerably larger than the others; 16 femoral pores; on the under 

 side of tibia two rows of plates of which one in the outer row is enor- 

 mously enlarged; upper side of wrist with regular series of transverse 

 plates corresponding to the metacarpals; 34 subdigital lamellae on the 

 fourth toe; tail covered with smooth diagonal scales set in regular 

 transverse rows, 18 scales in the fifteenth verticil from the base. 



Dimensions: Head and body, 51 mm.; head to posterior ear, 13.5 

 mm.; tail incomplete; foreleg, 18 mm.; hindleg, 32 mm.; axilla to 

 groin, 26 mm. 



Color (in alcohol) : Body French gray above, immaculate pearl 

 gray below, tail and hindlegs plumbeous. A series of narrow longitu- 

 dinal black dorsal and lateral stripes running from the region of the 

 eyes onto the tail, these stripes equal in width except for the next to 

 the lowest on each side, which is slightly the widest, noticeably so on 

 the upper temporal region near its origin at the posterior corner of 

 the eye; loreal region with a faint dark stripe, which is the anterior 

 continuation of this widest dark stripe ; the lowest stripe begins above 

 the corner of the mouth, passes through the ear and continues along 

 the side and onto the tail; the two pairs of dorsal stripes originate on 

 the supraocular plates, leaving the anterior part of the snout without 

 any pattern at all, and pass backward to the scapular region where 

 they narrow somewhat to allow the insertion of another pair of black 

 stripes, which in turn allows a single black stripe to be interpolated 

 in the center of the back about halfway between axilla and groin. 



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