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 Table 54. — Specimens of Amphisbaena manni examined 



Museum No. 



Locality 



Date 



Collector 



U.S.N.M. 



671 13 (paratype) 



69175- 



74679-74687 - 



74978,74979 



76656,76657. — 



M.C.Z. 



8645 (type), 8646, 8647 

 (paratypes). 



44389 



44390 



44399 - 



Cap-Haltien, Haiti. 



San Francisque, Haiti 



Rio San Juan, D. R 



Boca del Infierno, D. R 



L'Atalaye, near San Michel du 

 Nord, Haiti. 



Cap-Haltien, Haiti. 



Constanza, D. R 



Villa Altagracia, D. R. 

 Sanchez, D. R 



1913 -- 



Mar. 18, 1925. 

 March 1928- . 

 Mar. 14, 1928. 

 January 1929. 



1913. 



August 1938. 

 July 1938.... 

 do 



W. M. Mann. 

 G. S. Miller, Jr. 



Do. 



Do. 

 A. J. Poole and W. 

 Perrygo. 



W. M. Mann. 



P. J. Darlington. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



AMPHISBAENA INNOCENS Weinland 



Figure 84 



1863. Amphisbaena innocens Weinland, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Ges., vol. 4, pt. 2, 

 p. 137, pi. 5, fig. 2 (type locality, J^r^mie, Haiti). — Gunther, Zoological 

 literature (Zool. Rec), 1865, p. 149 (footnote). — Gray, Catalogue of the 

 Shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 37, 1872. — 

 Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, p. 273, 1879 (Gonave Island, Haiti).— 

 Stejneger, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1902, p. 677, 1904.— Barbour, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 318, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, 

 No. 4, p. 104, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 128, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 82, No. 2, p. 146, 1937.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, 

 art. 6, p. 11, 1924; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928; Occ. 

 Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 184, 1934.— Barbour and Loveridge, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 214, 1929. 



1901. Amphisbaena caeca Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, 

 p. 37 (Haiti) (not of Cuvier). 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 60620, from Moron, southwestern 

 Haiti, collected on December 25, 1917, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Rostral 

 small, triangular, scarcely visible from above; prefrontals long, the 

 suture between them somewhat longer than the frontal suture and 

 twice as long as the nasal suture ; ocular moderate, quadrangular, smaller 

 than the postocular and the third supralabial, which meet in a point 

 behind it; a well-developed temporal between the postocular and the 

 third supralabial, just failing to touch the ocular; eye plainly visible 

 through ocular; one pair of occipitals, slightly longer than broad, in 

 contact behind the frontals; three supralabials, the second about once 

 and a half as long as the first or the third; mental followed by a large 

 median postmental which is once and a half as long as broad; three 

 lower labials, the second longer than the other two together ; behind the 

 second lower labial a large malar shield ; just behind the postmental and 



