HERPETOLOGY OF PORTO RICO. 



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that having- been shipped from Martinique the person in charge of the 

 reptile collection at the Paris Museum recorded them as having been 

 collected in the latter island. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 27066; Catalina plantation, northeast- 

 ern Porto Rico, about 890 feet altitude; March 1, 1900. Rostral 

 squarish, much wider than high, followed by a pair of supranasals 

 broadly in contact; a pair of fronto-nasals larger than the supranasals; 

 prefrontal undivided, much broader than long, with a projecting angle 

 in front and a straight border behind, the latter forming a suture with 

 the entire anterior border of the frontal; frontal large, longer than 

 the width between the supraoculars, but not as long as its extreme 

 width at the posterior border, in contact with four supraoculars; no 

 fronto-parietals; parietals large, about the size of the prefrontal, sep- 

 arated from the supraoculars by a smaller shield and from each other 



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Figs. 74-79. — Celestus pleii. 74, top of head; 75, side of head; 76, underside of head; 77, underside 

 of right fore foot; 78, underside of left hind foot. 2 x natural size. 79, scales on back, showing 

 arrangement and striation. 4 x natural size. No. 27066, U.S.N.M. 



by a nearly triangular interparietal and a shorter occipital, the two 

 latter shields forming a short suture; five supraoculars; a single nasal 

 in contact with rostral, the nostril being pierced in the posterior half; 

 three loreals in a row between nasal and preocular, first in contact 

 with supranasal and fronto-nasal, second in contact with fronto-nasal 

 and prefrontal and third loreal in contact with a small shield interpo- 

 lated between it and the anterior supraocular and prefrontal; a long 

 angular subocular wedged in between fifth and sixth supralabials; 

 eight supralabials; three large temporals in the first row, forming a 

 semicircle behind the eye; mental small, much narrower than rostral, 

 followed by an unpaired larger postmental; four pairs of chin-shields, 

 the first two in contact with infralabials; ear opening roundish, small, 

 about the size of the first supralabial; body elongate, the distance 

 between the tips of the adpressed fore and hind limbs being greater 

 than the distance from tip of snotot to arm; thirty-four scales round 



