2 University of Michigan 



by five scales — two large petaloid laterals, two narrower later- 

 als which meet above except at their distal extremities, and 

 a narrow dorsal scale on the distal curve of the sheath. Body 

 a little depressed, covered above with -fine tubercular scales, 

 below with smooth, slightly imbricate scales. Tail long, cyHn- 

 drical, covered with imbricate scales, the dorsals regularly a 

 little elongate and obtusely pointed, the ventrals larger, irreg- 

 ular in shape, being rounded or sharply or obtusely pointed. 

 Pupil round. Males without femoral pores. 



Type: Psciidogoiiatodcs furz'its, new species. 



Pseudogonatodes furvus, new species. 



Description : Adult male. Head long and narrow, the 

 length (to the ear) contained 4.5 times in the length of the 

 head and body, the greatest width (at the ear) three-fifths of 

 the length ; snout pointed, its length a little more than twice 

 the diameter of the orbit; diameter of orbit one-half of the 

 distance between the eye and ear; ear opening very small, oval. 

 Body elongate, a little depressed, with two erect longitudinal 

 vertebral folds ; dorsal scales tubercular. Rostral large, cleft 

 above, bounding the nostril anteriorly. F'ive upper labials; 

 four and five lower labials, the first very long, reaching nearly 

 to the vertical of the anterior margin of the orbit. Several 

 small scales behind the mental ; gular scales very small and 

 somewhat tubercular ; abdominal scales large, flat, imbricate. 

 Dorsal caudal scales a little elongate and bluntly pointed, 

 ventrals variable in form, being rounded or obtusely or acutely 

 pointed. 



Ground color above bone brown, mixed with bufi^y brown 

 on the muzzle. Sides with small, inconspicuous, round, gray 

 spots mostly in two rows from the head to the groin. A faint 

 light streak from the eye to the occipital region, and two on the 



