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1'Ro<'t<:edings of the national museum. 
Vol.. x\rv. 
LEPTOGNATHUS VARIEGATUS Dumeril and Bibron. 
FlU. 31. — LEPTOGNATHUS VARIE- 
GATUS, X 3. 
Fig. 32.— LEPTOGNATHUS 
VARIEGATUS, X 3. 
Fig. 33.— LEPTOGNATHUS 
VARIEGATUS, X 3. 
The .specimen collected l)v Capttiiii Ro])inson has fewer supralabials 
than the normal number credited to this species. In view of the great 
variability of this character, and also because the present specimen is 
manifestly abnormal on the left side, I have not attached an}^ impor- 
tance to this circumstance. On the left side there are onl}' eight 
supralabials, nevertheless the third is excluded from the eye, which is 
onl}^ in touch with the fourth and fifth. On the right side the number 
of supralabials is nine, third, fourth, and lifth entering the eye. Nasal 
is apparently undivided. 
List of specimeDS. 
U.S.N.M. 
No. 
Collector's 
No. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Scales. 
Ventral.s. 
Anal. 
Subcau- 
dals. 
22.531 
1 
A 15 h La Guaira 
1 
June 23, 1895 
15 
179 
1 
81/81 
Captain Robinson writes that this snake was coiled up in a tight 
knot at the end of a twig on a small bush. A blow from the handle 
of his butterfly net killed it, hut it hung until taken down. 
CHELONIA. 
TESTUDO DENTICULATA Linnaeus. 
Four live specimens of this common South American land tortoise 
were brought home and deposited in the National Zoological Park. 
The colU^ctors state that these turtles are eaten by natives, who call 
them iii(n'(H-(nj><. 
