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Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 59240 from J^remie, Haiti, collected 

 by J. B. Henderson and Dr. Paul Bartsch on April 10, 1917. Rostral 

 forming a right angle behind; nostril in the lower part of the anterior 

 nasal plate, which is rather narrowly in contact with its fellow behind 

 the rostral; frontonasal nearly as wide as long, in contact with both 

 nasals, loreal, and prefrontal; prefrontals rather narrowly in contact; 

 frontal elongate, pentagonal, in contact broadly with the first two supra- 

 oculars and very narrowly with the third ; a pair of frontoparietals in 

 contact with the third supraoculars; five occipitals in a transverse 

 row, the central and the outermost ones a little smaller than the 

 remaining two; seven or eight superciliaries, the fourth much the 

 longest; three supraoculars, the first well separated from the loreal 

 by the first superciliary, the second and third separated from the 

 superciliaries by a single row of granular scales, the third followed by 

 a group of three or four small scales, which separate it from the outer 

 occipitals; loreal undivided; about seven upper labials, the last very 

 small and barely distinguishable from the scales of the lower temporal 

 region, the third largest, the sixth coming below the center of the eye, 

 the second in contact with the posterior nasal and very slightly with 

 the loreal; temples with granular scales smaller than the dorsals, 

 about equal to those of the sides of the neck; mental followed by an 

 unpaired postmental; six infralabials, the first small, the third and 

 foiu"th largest, the sixth very minute and almost indistinguishable 

 from the small scales following it; first pair of chin shields completely 

 separated by a row of narrow scales; between infralabials and chin 

 shields a wedge composed anteriorly of a single series of small scales 

 extending forward to the middle of the second infralabial and widening 

 posteriorly to three scales; chin and throat covered with granules of 

 fairly regular size becoming gradually larger and then suddenly very 

 small just before the mesoptychial region is reached; on this region 

 about three rows of larger hexagonal scales which attain their maxi- 

 mum development in the center; back, sides, and upper part of limbs 

 covered with fine uniform granules ; those on the sides smaller ; about 

 43 dorsal granules in the standard distance from center of eye to tip 

 of snout; under side of body with 34 transverse and 8 longitudinal 

 rows of rectangular plates, with some additional scales bordering the 

 latter, which are less than one-fourth their area; a pair of enlarged 

 preanals, preceded by a single large shield, which is in turn preceded 

 by a smaller one; on the lower arm a wide (outer) and a narrow 

 (inner) series of antebrachial plates, the wider series being continuous 

 with a similar series on the upper arm, although greatly reduced in 

 size at the elbow; no additional enlarged series of antebrachials on 

 the upper arm ; a patch of half a dozen slightly enlarged and imbricate 

 scales on the back of the arm above the elbow; under side of thigh 

 covered with about four rows of hexagonal plates, decreasing gradually 



