698 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



LEIMADOPHIS EXIGUUS a (Cope). 



1862. Dromicus exiguus Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1862, p. 79 (type localities, 

 St. John and St. Thomas, West Indies; type in U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Riise, 

 collector). — Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. Meddel. Naturh. Foren. 

 (Copenhagen), 1862 (1863), p. 216; author's separate p. 64 (St. John, 

 St. Thomas, Mus. Copenh.; Riise, collector). — Carman, Proc. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc, XXIV, 1887, p. 282 (St. Thomas; Mus. Comp. Zool. 

 Cambr.).— Boulenger, Cat, Sn. Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 126 (St. 

 Thomas; Brit. Mus.; Challenger exped.). — Meerwarth, Mitth. 

 Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XVIII, 1901, p. 14 (St. Thomas, Hamb. 

 Mus. ; Callwood, collector) . 



Description.— Adult; U.S.N.M. No. 26101; Culebra Island; Feb- 

 ruary 9, 1899; A. B. Baker, collector. Rostral scarcely visible from 

 above; internasal suture shorter than prefrontal suture; frontal long, 

 longer than the parietal suture, but shorter than the parietals; loreal 



16S 



Figs. 167-169. — Leimadophis exiguus. Sj X natural size. 167, top of head; 168, side of head; 169, 



underside of head. No. 26101, U.S.N.M. 



(abnormally) joined to prefrontals; one preocular; two postoculars; 

 one long anterior temporal, and two smaller posterior ones; eight 

 supralabials, third, fourth, and fifth entering eye (on left side nine, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth entering eye); posterior chin-shields longer 

 than anterior ones; 19 rows of smooth scales without pores; 111 ven- 

 trals; anal divided; subcaudals, S'2 pairs. Color as described under 

 Leimadophis sta/ili, p. 695, but paler. 



Dimensions. 



mm. 



Tip of snout to tip of tail 310 



Vent to tip of tail 100 



Variation. — The above specimen is abnormal in having no loreal. 

 Ordinarily the loreal is very small, sometimes even rudimentaiy, and 

 Reinhardt and Luetken mention a specimen having none on the left 



«Latin=small, short, trifling. 



