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together in both species, and in the presence of a lateral light line and 

 other peculiarities. They differ in the much finer body granules of 

 bahorucoensis, as well as in its squarer snout and in the possession of 

 the dark dorsal saddles. 



This paratype has a slight longitudinal gular fold and very weak 

 indications of some transverse folds. The tail verticils are poorly 

 marked but seem to have about five scales on top and eight very ir- 

 regular rows directly below, decreasing to six rows laterally. 



Genus AUDANTIA Cochran 



1934. Audantia Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 171 (type, 

 A. armouri). 



Diagnosis. — Femoral pores absent; digits dilated and depressed, 

 with smooth transverse lamellae inferiorly, the distal joint narrower 

 and compressed, raised above the penultimate ; lateral teeth tricuspid ; 

 tail apparently not prehensile, compressed; tympanum distinct; body 

 distinctly depressed, covered with small keeled granules above and 

 v/ith imbricate smooth scales below; no nuchal or dorsal crests and 

 only a very slight serration on the tail. Male with both a transverse 

 and a longitudinal gular fold; the transverse fold sometimes rather 

 indistinct in preserved specimens; the short longitudinal fold often 

 prominent, obscuring somewhat the presence of the transverse fold; 

 sides of neck much wrinkled, with a transverse fold extending down- 

 ward in front of the shoulders. The genus is named for its collector, 

 Andre Audant, zoologist at the Government Agricultural School at 

 Damien. 



KEY TO AUDANTIA 



No enlarged nuchal scales armotiri (p. 188) 



A patch of distinctly enlarged nuchals shrevei (p. 192) 



AUDANTIA AKMOURI Cochran 



Figure 60 



1934. Audantia armouri Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 

 p. 171.— Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 117, 1937. 



Type.—M. C. Z. No. 37523, an adult male from Peak La Selle, 

 Haiti; collector, Andre Audant. 



Original description oj type. — ^"Head relatively short and blunt, 

 the distance from anterior corner of eye to tip of snout slightly more 

 than one-half the greatest width of the head (just anterior to the ears) ; 

 canthus rostralis sharp, composed of three or four keeled scales of 

 which the second is considerably enlarged, the last merging indis- 

 tinguishably into the supercihary ridge which has two very elongate 

 scales followed posteriorly by a double row of much smaller ones; 

 loreal region slightly concave, with six transverse rows of keeled, 



