430 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



GLOSSARY. 



Anal plate. — The large scale in front of the anus in snakes. 

 Antorbital. — A small plate which lies immediately in front of 



the eye. 

 Azygous. — Single. Not one of a pair. 

 Carinated. — With a keel or sharp ridge. 

 Frontal. — The large plate on the top of the head between the 



superciliaries. 

 Gastrosteges. — Large plates along the belly. 

 Genials. — Large scales behind the mental. 

 Infralabials. — Plates on the lower lip. 

 Internasals. — Scales just behind the rostral. 

 Keel. — A ridge along a scale. 

 Labials. — Plates on the lips. 

 Loral. — See Loreal. 

 Loreal. — The plate occupying the space between the nasals and 



the preoculars. 

 Maculate. — Spotted. 



Occipitals. — Plates behind the frontal and superciliaries. 

 Parietals. — See Occiptals. 

 Postgenials. — Posterior pair of genials. 

 Postoculars. — Plates bounding the orbit behind. 

 Prefrontal. — Plates just in front of the frontals. 

 Pregenials. — Anterior pair of genials. 

 Preocular. — Plates bounding the orbit in front. 

 Rostral. — Plate at the tip of the snout. 

 Scute. — A scale. 



Superciliary. — The plates above the eyes. 

 Supralabials. — Plates on the upper lip. 

 Supraocular. — Same as superciliaries. 

 Urosteges. — Large plates on the lower surface of the tail. 



Labobatoet of Zoology, 

 Dniveesitt of Kansas, 

 November 1, 1903. 



