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(Cape Hayti). — Barbour and Lovebidge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, 



No. 10, p. 254, 1929. — Leimadophis parvifrons Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 339, 1914 (part). — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 



vol. 4, p. 167, 1929. 

 1920. Leimadophis parvifrons parvifrons Dunn, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 



vol. 7, p. 38.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 14, 1924. 

 1930. Dromicus parvifrons parvifrons Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 115; 



vol. 19, No. 3, p. 139, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 161, 



1937. 



Description.— Adult female; U.S.N.M. No. 60607; Molina, south- 

 west Haiti; January 31, 1918; W. L. Abbott, collector. Rostral much 

 broader than high, well visible from above; internasal suture shorter 

 than prefrontal suture; frontal slightly longer than its distance from 

 end of snout, shorter than parietals, widely separated from preocular; 

 supraocular as wide as frontal; nasal divided, longer than its distance 

 from eye; loreal small, as high as broad; one large preocular, two 



Figure 108. — Leimadophis parvifrons parvifrons: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 60607, from Moline, Haiti. One and one-half times natural size. 



postoculars; one large anterior temporal followed by two smaller 

 ones; eight supralabials, the second in contact with posterior nasal 

 and loreal, barely reaching the preocular; third, fourth, and fifth 

 entering the eye; lower labials ten on right and nine on left side of 

 mouth, four on each side in contact with the anterior chin shields and 

 two with the posterior ones, which are the longer; scales smooth, 

 without pores, in 19 rows; ventrals 148; anal divided; caudals 76 

 (tail defective). Head and body, 420 mm.; tail, 192 mm. + tip. 



Color (in alcohol) : Top of head and body dark olive-brown; a light 

 ochraceous streak beginning at the nostrils, running back through the 

 supraoculars and temporals, and continuing down the sides of the 

 body on the sixth scale row and the upper half of the fifth; a dark 

 brown streak from the nostril passing through the loreal and postocu- 

 lars and continuing on the fourth scale row and the extreme lower 

 edge of the fifth; a black stripe starting on the snout and continuing 

 down the median dorsal row on back and tail; upper and lower 



