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1914. Alsophis anomalus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, art. 2, 



p. 336; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. Ill, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 135, 1935; 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 156, 1937.— Cochran, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 13, 1924; Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 8, p. 186, 1934. 

 1929. Leimadophis anomalus Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, p. 164. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 59917, adult female collected at Jean 

 Rabel, Haiti, May 8, 1917, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Rostral slightly 

 broader than high, well visible from above; snout projecting, rather 

 pointed; internasals as long as broad; internasal suture half as long 

 as prefrontal suture; frontal one and one-fourth as long as broad, 

 broader than supraoculars, about equal in length to the parietal 

 suture, as long as its distance from the tip of the snout; nostril large, 

 between two large nasals; loreal small, rectangular, partially fused 



Figure 105. — Alsophis anomalus: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. U.S.N.M. No. 

 59917, from Jean Rabel, Haiti. One-half natural size. 



with the nasal on the right side of the head; eye moderate; one pre- 

 ocular, not in contact with the frontal; two postoculars; a large 

 subocular on the right side separating the fifth supralabial from the 

 eye and on the left side fused with the fifth supralabial; temporals 

 1+2, the uppermost of the second vertical temporal series very 

 large, three-fourths the length of the parietals; eight supralabials, 

 only the fourth entering the eye, the last three much higher and 

 wider than the others; indications of a slight groove between the 

 temporal and the sixth and seventh upper labials, whose upper borders 

 are somewhat straightened; five (on one side four) lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin shields which are as long as the poste- 

 rior; 21 rows of smooth scales around the body, each scale with two 

 conspicuous pores near the tip; 215 ventrals obtusely angulate 

 laterally; anal divided; tail defective in this specimen. 



Color (in alcohol): Above uniform russet brown, each scale be- 

 coming slightly darker toward the tip; ventrals uniform buff. The 

 upper labials become lighter in the center; the lower labials and the 

 chin shields are yellow, with their posterior margins dark brown. 



