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Table 71. — Specimens of Leimadophis parvifrons protenus examined — Continued 



LEIMADOPmS PARVIFRONS ALLENI Dnnn 



Figures 107, 112, 115o 



1920. Leimadophis alleni Dunn, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 7, p. 40. — 



Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 15, 1924; Proc. Biol. 



Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10. p. 287, 1929. 

 1879. Dromicus parvifrons Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, p. 273 (a 



variety from Gonave Island discussed but not named). — Amaral, Mem. 



Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, p. 167, 1929. 

 1930. Dromicus alleni Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 114; vol. 19, No. 3, 



p. 139, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 161, 1937. 



Figure 112. — Leimadophis parvifrons alleni: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 10170, type, from Gonave Island, Haiti. One and one-half times natural 

 size. 



Description of the paratype. — Adult female, U.S.N.M. No. 10170; 

 Gonave Island; J. J. Brown, collector. Rostral much broader than 

 high, visible from above; intemasal suture shorter than prefrontal 

 suture; frontal longer than its distance from end of snout, shorter 

 than parietals, separated from preocular; supraocular a little nar- 

 rower than the frontal; nasal divided, longer than its distance from the 

 eye ; loreal moderate, a little deeper than broad ; one large preocular and 

 two postoculars, the upper the larger; eight upper labials, the second 

 in contact with posterior nasal and loreal, but separated from the pre- 

 ocular; the third labial barely touching eye, the fourth and fifth 



