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 Table 55. — Specimens of Amphisbaena innocens examined 



AMPHISBAENA CAUDALIS Cochran 



Figure 85 



1928. Amphisbaena caudalis Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, 

 p. 58. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 

 10, p. 214, 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 105, 1930; vol. 19, 

 No. 3, p. 129, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 146, 1937. 



"Type. — M.C.Z. no. 25550, an adult from Grande Cayemite Island, 

 Haiti, collected by Walter J. Eyerdam from under stones in September 

 1927. 



Figure 85. — Amphisbaena caudalis: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. M.C.Z. No. 

 25550, type, from Grande Cayemite Island, Haiti. Twice natural size. 



"Description of the type. — Rostral small, triangular, scarcely any of 

 it visible from above; prefrontals long, the suture between them a little 

 longer than that between the frontals and slightly over twice the 

 length of the nasal suture; ocular moderate, quadrangular, smaller 

 than the postocular and about equal to the third supralabial; a well 

 developed temporal between the postocular and third supralabial, 

 just touching the ocular and about equal to it in size; eye plainly 

 visible through the ocular; two pairs of occipitals in contact behind 

 the frontals, the anterior pair longer than broad, the posterior pair 

 squarish; three supralabials, the second as long as the other two 

 together; three lower labials, the second much longer than the other 

 two together; behind the second lower labial a large malar shield; 

 mental followed by a large median postmental somewhat longer than 

 broad; just behind the postmental and between the second supra- 



