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occipital area and passing backward and downward to end in front of 

 the shoulder; four other wide brown chevron-shaped markings across 

 the back, breaking up on the sides into a number of irregular, diagonal, 

 wavy brown stripes ; tail encircled by six wide brown bands ; fore and 

 hind limbs with brown crossbands which break up into irregular dark 

 lines; upper and lower lips lilac-gray, the area in front of and behind 

 the ear white ; an indefinite wide, seal-brown stripe along the sub-labial 

 region; chin and gular scales plumbeous, the gular skin blackish slate. 

 Belly and lower surfaces of limbs pearl-gray, with a few scattered 

 lilac-gray spots. 



"Dimensions. — Head and body, 75 mm.; head to posterior border 

 of ear, 25 mm. ; width of head, 12.5 mm. ; fore limb from axilla, 26 mm. ; 

 hind limb from groin, 38 mm.; tibia, 14 mm.; tail, 90 mm." 



Genus CHAMAELINOROPS Schmidt 



1919. Chamaelinorops Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 41, p. 523. 



This genus was first taken on Navassa Island. A second species was 

 discovered by Dr. Wetmore in the southwestern peninsula of Haiti, 

 giving another proof of its connection in former times with Navassa. 



CHAMAELINOROPS WETMOREI Cochran 



Figure 42 



1928. Chamaelinorops loetmorei Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, 

 p. 45.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 86, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 106, 

 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 117, 1937. 



"Diagnosis. — Differs from Chamaelinorops barbouri in having shorter 

 limbs, in possessing a lateral series of enlarged spinose scales, in having 

 small scales instead of granules in the area between this lateral series of 

 enlarged scales and the enlarged dorsals, and in possessing a trans- 

 verse gular fold which reaches almost to the nuchal region. 



"Type. — U.S.N. M. No. 72630, a young individual collected at 

 Fond-des-Negres, 20 kilometers southwest of Miragoane, Departement 

 du Sud, Haiti, on April 4, 1927, by Dr. Alexander Wetmore. 



"Description. — Head V-shaped in outline, very angular; can thus 

 rostralis sharp, composed of two large scales, merging evenly into the 

 supraciliary border where three scales may be counted, the second the 

 longest and very wide ; loreal region concave ; four rows of loreal scales ; 

 nostrils lateral, somewhat elevated; four scales between the supra- 

 nasals; rostral very broad and low, separated from the nasals by two 

 rows of small scales; frontal region without ridges, flat; a patch of four 

 or five unequal, enlarged supraocular scales, separated from the super - 

 ciliaries by smaller scales and granules; ridges of the supraorbital 

 semicircles prominent, covered with large keeled scales, and separated 

 from each other by three rows of small smooth scales; occipital plate 

 slightly larger than the scales immediately surrounding it, elongate, 

 the pineal body very apparent; three scales between the supraorbital 



