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second and third supralabials ; frontal as long as parietals, longer than 

 its distance, from tip of snout, anteriorly a little wider than behind, in 

 contact with three supraoculars; four supraoculars, second largest; 

 seven superciliaries ; fronto-parietals somewhat smaller than inter- 

 parietal; parietals large, in contact behind interparietal; one pair of 

 nuchals; seven supralabials, seventh largest, fifth under the eye; two 

 temporals in the first row, low;er much the larger; upper temporal in 

 the second row very large, much larger than lower one, wedge-sliaped 

 with the apex pointing forward; lower temporal of the second row 

 elongate squarish, with upper and lower edges nearly parallel ; a single 

 large scale between seventh supralabial and ear-opening whicli is bor- 

 dered anteriorly by a few projecting granules; mental small, followed 

 by a single pentagonal, unpaired postmental; seven, lower labials, the 

 sixth being band-like, long and narrow; body covered above and 

 below with cycloid scales in 26 rows around the middle, those on the 



Figs. 170-180.— Kumeces latiscutatus. 2 X nat.size. 179, side of head, normal postnasal; (25 X 



NAT. SIZE) 180, UNDERSIDE OF HIND FOOT. NO. OlOfi, U.S.N.M. 



middle of the hack slightly wider than the others, laterals not essen- 

 tially smaller than ventrals; a pair of large preanal plates; length of 

 hind leg contained twice and a half times in the distance from snout 

 to vent; the adpressed limbs overlap by the length of the fingers; sole 

 of hind foot gramdar with a single larger tubercle and a few others at 

 the heel; a specialized scale with a claw-like pointed keel behind the 

 vent at each corner; tail cylindric, tapering, slightly swollen under- 

 neath at base, with a series of wide transverse plates on the underside. 

 Color (in alcohol), above pale olive gray with a dorso-lateral whitish 

 band about one scale wide, bordered below by a broad dark-brown 

 band from the eye over the ear-opening, above the legs and continued 

 on the tail nearly to the tip; head nearly uniform oUve clay color; 

 whole underside, including lower half of flanks, whitish, cliin and 

 throat suffused with clay color, the rest with bluish gray. 



