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scale row on the body, widening slightly on the neck to embrace the 

 lower part of the seventh scale row; each scale of the outer row of 

 dorsals with a large black spot; a similar spot on the outer ends of 

 the ventrals; ventrals 148-153; caudals 115-131. 



''Type.— An adult male, M.C.Z. 37668, from Isle Vache, Haiti, 

 collected April 12, 1934, by the Utowana Expedition. 



"Description. — Kostral broader than deep; internasals slightly 

 shorter than prefrontals; length of frontal slightly exceeds its distance 

 from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals, separated 

 from the preocular; supraocular about two-thirds as wide as the 

 frontal; nasal divided, a little longer than its distance from the eye; 

 loreal moderate in size, rectangular, a httle broader than deep; one 

 preocular; two postoculars, the upper the larger; temporals 1 + 1 on 

 the right side, 1 + 2 on the left; 8 upper labials, the second in contact 



Figure 114. — Leimadophis parvifrons rosamondae: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. 

 M.C.Z. No. 37668, type, from lie a Vache, Haiti. One and one-half times natural size. 



with the posterior nasal and loreal but not reaching the preocular, the 

 third, fourth and fifth entering the eye; 10 lower labials, five in contact 

 with the anterior chin shields and two with the posterior ones which 

 are slightly larger than the anterior; scales in 19 rows, without pores; 

 ventrals 149; anal divided; caudals 131. 



"Color (in alcohol). — Top and sides of head and body black; a pale 

 blue dorso-lateral stripe beginning rather indistinctly on the canthus 

 rostralis, continuing above the eye and through the temporal scales, 

 and becoming much more distinct on the sides of the neck, where it 

 occupies the upper part of the sixth and the lower part of the seventh 

 scale rows, and narrowing on the body to some elongate white spots 

 down the middle of the sixth scale row, with some fainter pale marks 

 on the upper margins of the fifth scale row; the black dorsal area, 

 which is K+7+}^ scales wide, showing traces of a pair of very narrow 

 broken white lines composed of the white margins between the eighth 

 and ninth scale rows (in the type specimen), these broken lines very 

 faint on the neck, more pronounced on the anterior part of the body 

 but disappearing completely at mid-body; labials pale china blue, 



