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Table 63. — Specimens of Uromacer catesbyi examined — Continued 



UROMACER SCANDAX Dunn 



Figure 98 



1920. Uromacer scandax Dxjnn, Proe. New England Zool. Club, vol. 7, p. 43 

 (type locality, Tortuga Island). — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 

 4, p. 163, 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 11, 1930; vol. 19, 

 No. 3, p. 135, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 155, 1937. 



The type specimen is thus far the only recorded example of this 

 species. The following description of it is taken directly from 

 Dunn's paper cited above: 



"Diagnosis. — Like Uromacer catesbyi, but with 19-11 scale rows and 

 181 ventrals. 



"Type, adult female. U.S.N.M., no. 59,438, Tortuga [Tortue] 

 Island, West Indies, May, 1917, 15 collected by W. L. Abbott. 



"Description. — Scales, 19-11; ventrals 181; caudals 162+ ; oculars, 



'» The date of collecting is really January 31, 1917, according to the label placed upon this specimen by 

 Dr. Abbott. 



