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 pt. 1, pp. 16, 19, 1928.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 116, 1930; 

 vol. 19, No. 3, p. 141, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 166, 

 1937.— Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, p. 333, 1938; Publ. Inst. 

 Cient. Dominico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 84, 1939. — Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. 

 Dominico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 16, 1939. 



1807. Crocodilus biscutatus Cua^ier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 10, p. 53, pi. 2, 

 fig. 6. 



1844. Crocodilas americanus Gray, Catalogue of the tortoises, crocodiles, and 

 amphisbaenians in the collection of the British Museum, p. 60. — Hux- 

 ley, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 4, p. 11, 1860. — Bocourt, Mission scienti- 

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 pi. 9, fig. 1, 1870.— Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, pi. 273, 1879 — 

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 1910; Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44 No. 2, p. 346, 1914; Ann. Carnegie 

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1862. Molinia americana Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 10. p. 272; 

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 in the collection of the British Museum, p. 106, 1873. 



1870. Crocodilus lewyanus Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans 

 l'Amerique Centrale, Reptiles, p. 33, pi. 8, figs. 2, 2a. 



1870. Crocodilus mexicanus Bocourt, ibid., p. 34, pi. 8, figs. 3, 3a. 



1870. Crocodilus pacificus Bocourt, ibid., p. 31, pi. 9, figs. 5, 5a, 5b. — Sumichrast, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 5, p. 171, 1880. 



1885. Crocodilus americanus acutus Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 

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Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 80893, a young individual from lie 

 a Vache, Haiti, collected on May 7, 1930, by Lee H. Parish and 

 Watson Perrygo. Nineteen upper teeth. Snout about one-half as 

 long as broad at the base; a median ridge or longitudinal swelling 

 along the snout; interorbital width contained about five times in the 

 width of the flat cranial table; two large nuchals, with a smaller one 

 posteriorly situated on each side; two pairs of smaller nuchals in a 

 transverse row behind the occiput. Dorsal scutes well separated from 

 the nuchals, in four longitudinal rows and about 15 transverse rows; 

 the scutes of the two median rows regularly arranged, the others more 

 or less irregular and more strongly keeled ; sides with scattered keeled 

 scutes. A slight web between the fingers; outer toes extensively 

 webbed. A serrated fringe on the outer edge of the leg; scales on the 

 limbs obtusely keeled. 



Dimensions: Snout to anterior orbit, 64 mm.; snout to articular, 

 126 mm.; width of snout at level of anterior orbits, 34 mm.; head and 

 body, 340 mm.; tail, 310 mm.; foreleg, 97 mm.; hindleg, 137 mm. 



