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der, compressed and about one and two-thirds times the 

 length of the body. The tips of toes and fingers overlap 

 slightly when the limbs are pressed to the side. 

 Jeremie, Hayti. 



DlPLOGLOSSUS CRUSCULUS Sp. 11. 



Lateral teeth compressed, bicuspid, anterior cusp small 

 or indistinct. Ear-opening as large as the eye-opening, 

 oblong, vertical. A large azygos prefrontal, broader than 

 long, in contact with the broadest loreal, little wider than 

 the frontal, separated by two pairs of shields from the 

 rostral ; occipital smaller than the interparietal ; nasal sep- 

 arated from the rostral by the first labial ; a postnasal 

 and two or three loreals, second broadest ; the suture be- 

 tween the fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh labials falls 

 below the middle of the eye. Submentals large, one an- 

 terior followed by four pairs, anterior three and part of 

 fourth in contact with the lower labials. Body elongate, 

 sub-round, depressed. Forty-two rows of scales around 

 the middle of the body ; dorsals slightly roof-shaped, 

 finely striate, with twenty-one striae on the middle of the 

 back. Limbs short and weak ; fingers not four times as 

 long as thick ; arm to the end of fingers reaching the an- 

 terior border of the ear ; adpressed limbs not meeting by 

 the length of the arm and hand; foot and leg two and 

 one-third times in the distance from arm-pit to thigh. 



Back brownish with closely placed narrow transverse 

 or reticulated lines of brown ; a narrow, light-edged dark 

 streak along the upper edge of each flank, edges serrated ; 

 flank with scattered spots of white, less than a scale in size ; 

 darker lateral edges of scales under neck and head form- 

 ing longitudinal streaks. Labials and other shields of the 

 head with brown blotches. 



Hob. Kingston, Jamaica. 



