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NEOSEPS REYNOLDSI, new species. 



Diagnosis. — Snout wedge-shaped with anguhir labial edge; five 

 supralabials; one large temporal; three supraoculars; 16 scale rows 

 around the body. 



Hahitat. — Florida. 



Tyjje-specimen.— Cat. No. 42147, U.S.N.M.; near Spring Lake, 

 Fruitland Park, Lake County, Florida; A. G. Reynolds, collector. 



Description of type specimen (figs. 1-6). — Snout wedge-shaped, with 

 angular projecting labial edge; mouth inferior; nostril between two 

 small nasals, the anterior crescent-shaped, the posterior triangular, 

 both situated between rostral, supranasal, and first supralabial; 

 rostral large; supranasals large, broadly in contact behind the rostral 

 and with the first supralabial, separating the posterior nasal from 

 the loreal; fronto-nasal large, broadly in contact with loreal and 

 anterior supraocular; frontal large, slightly longer than broad, anterior 

 and posterior margins convex forward, lateral margins concave, in 

 contact with all the supraoculars; three small, nearly subequal supra- 



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Fig. I.—NEOSEPS REYNOLDSI. IJX NAT. SIZE. NO. 42l47, U. S. N. M. 



oculars, the median one triangular, its outer angle just reaching the 

 superciliary border; no superciliaries; no fronto-parietals; parietals 

 nearly as long as frontal, well-developed, with parallel sides, and 

 entirely separated by the interparietal, which equals them in width 

 anteriorly, narrowing to a blunt point posteriorly; one pair of nuchals, 

 not much larger than nearest dorsals ; loreal single, three times as 

 long as high, anteriorly widely separated from posterior nasal by supra- 

 nasal, posteriorly entering eye ; lower eyelid with a large transparent 

 disk; eye separated from supralabials by a row of about four small 

 scales; a small postocular; a single, very large temporal shield be- 

 tween the last supralabial and the parietal, bordering the entire 

 lateral margin of the latter; five large supralabials of subequal length, 

 third and fourth under eye, first, second, and third in contact with 

 loreal; four lower labials increasing in size posteriorly; two unpaired 

 postmentals, the second very large; behind these on either side two 

 large shields in contact with the lower labials; 16 rows of smooth 

 scales around the body, the two median series wider than the others, 



