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on the body 45 cinnamon crossbars about 1 scale in length and edged 

 posteriorly with a ragged dark border which is especially emphasized 

 towards the outer ends of the bars, which do not extend below the fourth 

 scale row; on the tail and posterior body the bars doisally are defi- 

 nitely broken up, leaving alternating lateral spots of cinnamon irreg- 

 larly pervaded with black; ventral surface buff-pink, the outer ends 

 of the scales heavily powdered with gray dots; two very irregular mid- 

 ventral series of squarish patches likewise composed of gray dots, and 

 tending to run together into parallel stripes towards the end of the 

 body; labials and chin with a heavy powdering of very pale gray dots 

 which tend to become more numerous around the borders of the 

 chin-shields. 



"Remarks. — This second known species of the genus has a grooved 

 fang exactly like that of laltris dorsalis. It cannot be said to resemble 



Figure 117. — laltris parishi: a, Top of head; b, side of head; r, chin. U.S.N.M. No. 80773, 

 type, from 10 miles east of Baraderes, Haiti. Natural size. 



dorsalis very closely, inasmuch as the coloration is very different and 

 the number of ventrals is considerably less in the new species. The 

 flatness and width of the head of the type suggested an adult Alspphis 

 anotnalus at first glance, but the teeth are utterly different. 



"The headplates of the new species are quite similar to those of 

 dorsalis, excepting that the frontal is shorter in proportion to its width 

 in the former. The white diagonal line bordered with black above and 

 below leading backwards from the eye in parishi is represented in 

 dorsalis by the wide black streak that forms the outer stroke of the 

 W-shaped head marking, but which in dorsalis does not drop to the 

 commissure of the mouth/" 



The type is still the only known example in museum collections. 



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