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last three or four infralabials. Infralabials : Seven ; the 

 last shorter than the posterior sublinguals, about as broad as 

 those shields, and touching three scales behind. (Fig. 54.) 



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Fig. 54. — Dipsadcmorphus trigonatus. 

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Costals : At midbody. Vertebrals, breadth of scales about 

 two-thirds their length, and about two-thirds as broad as the 

 ultimate row. Ultimate row, scales nearly as broad as long. 

 In 21 rows to behind midbody, where they reduce by three 



