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HELLER 



reddish, black-barred and spotted ; belly yellowish, spotted with pink- 

 ish and dusky on sides; breast and lower jaw brick red, spotted with 

 black; chin yellowish without darker spots; throat black; fore limbs 

 inferiorly red, black-spotted proximally like the breast; tail and hind 

 limbs below light grayish-green. 



Sixteen adult and three immature males are in the collection. 

 In these alcoholic specimens the coloration of the belly varies from 

 grayish or whitish to light buff. Throat in a few specimens medi- 

 ally yellowish, black-spotted. Sides of neck red in two speci- 

 mens. 



Length of head and body 91 to 100 mm. 



Coloration in life of an adult female. Cat. No. 3907, Stan. Univ. 

 Mus. Above grayish-brown, the dorsum crossed by dusky transverse 

 bars; whole dorsal surface except head spotted with blue-gray; limbs 

 above dusky barred like back ; head above olive brown, sides of snout 

 grayish. Sides of head and neck from eye to antehumeral spot brick 

 red ; sides of body behind axilla pinkish, obsoletely spotted with 

 dusky ; a black antehumeral spot. Belly and inferior surfaces of hind 

 limbs and tail light grayish ; breast lemon-yellow, spotted with black ; 

 throat medially like the breast, spotted with dark brown; sides of 

 body reddish ; lower jaw pinkish, spotted with dusky ; fore limbs in- 

 feriorly colored like breast, the forearm unspotted. 



The collection contains twenty-four adult females. In the majority 

 of these the belly is light blue-gray. The breast, throat and chin in 

 some specimens are sparingly spotted with darker. 



Length of head and body 66 to 76 mm. 



Scales small, 65 to 73 in circumference of body. 



Some of the darker males are not distinguishable in size and color- 

 ation from specimens of T. g. grayi from James Island. As a series 

 these specimens ai'e more uniform in size and coloration than those 

 from other islands. 



MEASUREMENTS OF Tropidu?-us graji barringtonensis. 



