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than is found in lumbricalis. It is to be regretted that only one 

 specimen — the type — has ever been collected on Navassa. 

 Specimens examined. — As listed in table 57. 



Table 57. — Hispaniolan specimens of Typhlops lumbricalis examined 



n Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1868, p. 128. 



TYPHLOPS PUSILLUS Barbour 



Figure 89 



1914. Typhlops pusillus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 

 323; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 106, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 130, 1935; 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 148, 1937.— Schmidt, Bull- 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 18, 1921. — Cochran, Proc. U. S- 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 11, 1924. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 357, 1929.— Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. 

 Domlnico-Alemdn, vol. 1, p. 18, 1939. 



Description. — Adult, U.S.N.M. No. 9803, from Santo Domingo; 

 1897; Charles A. Fraser, collector. Snout depressed and somewhat 

 projecting, rounded laterally; nostrils slightly below the lateral hori- 

 zontal edge; rostral one-fifth the width of the head, not extending 

 backward to line of the eyes; nostril on a suture starting from the mid- 

 dle of the upper edge of the second supralabial and joining the rostral 

 suture just above the lateral horizontal edge, the lower (anterior) 

 nasal thus being in contact with the first and second supralabials 

 and the upper (posterior) one in contact with the second and third; 

 supralabials four, the fourth largest; two preoculars, the lower rouglily 

 square in shape, in contact with the third supralabial, the upper 

 longer and less deep; ocular with concave anterior edge in contact 

 with third and fourth supralabials; supraoculars, prefrontal, and 

 frontal subequal, scarcely differentiated in shape from the body 



