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labial; temples granular like the top of the head, with a patch of very 

 minute granules between the eye and ear; mental broad, triangular, 

 considerably wider than rostral, its labial margin almost three times 

 as wide as the first infralabial ; two pairs of chin shields, the inner ones 

 in contact with the mental and separated from each other by a small 

 median scale, the scales following gradually merging into the very 

 fine granules covering the throat ; remainder of under side and of legs 



Figure 34. — Aristelliger lar: a, Top of head, showing traces of temporal pattern; b, side of 

 head; c, chin; d, underside of tail; e, underside of hindfoot; /, underside of forefoot. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62362, from Sinchez, Dominican Republic. One and one-half times nat- 

 ural size. 



covered with smooth, cycloid, imbricate scales; about 19 abdominal 

 scales included in the distance between end of snout and center of 

 ej'e; those on under side of thighs smaller, without femoral pores; 

 those beneath the tail transversely enlarged even in the reproduced 

 portion; fingers and toes free, all with long, compressed, angularly 

 raised, clawed distal phalanges; the claw of the inner digit inserted 

 at one side and in front of the terminal scale, and with one or two 

 enlarged padlike scales beside it; basal dilated portion with 16 or 17 



