G. UNDERWOOD 



Fig. 2. Clelia errabunda sp. nov., mounted scales to show distribution of tubercles and pits. a,b, parietal and frontal of BMNH 89.8.14.12; 

 c,d, frontal and parietal of BMNH 89.8.14.25 (type); e, mid-trunk scales of BMNH 89.8.14.12, from rows: 4, 5, 6, 7, paravertebral and 

 vertebral. The lower rows lack scale-organs. 



I I. 



pp / cp 



Fig. 3. Clelia errabunda, BMNH 85.8.14.12. i, mesial view of lower law: a = angular, d = dentary, s = splenial; ii, lateral view of left 

 maxilla (reversed); iii, ventral view of left upper jawbones: e = ectopterygoid, f = fangs with grooves, m = maxilla, pa = palatine, 

 pt = pterygoid; iv, mesial view of left palatine-pterygoid articulation: cp = choanal process, pp = posterior process of palatine. 



The 'Dominica' female has 234 ventrals and 71 subcaudals: 

 total 305. The type male has the extreme tip of the tail 

 missing, judged to be not more than two pairs of subcaudals. 

 It has 221 ventrals and 82 + (?)2 subcaudals: total 

 303 + (?)2. The paratype male has 224 ventrals and 75 + 

 subcaudals. The 'Demerara' female has 230.5 ventrals and 

 only 36 remaining pairs of subcaudals. 



The 'Dominica' specimen has a Duvernoy's (venom) gland 

 from behind the eye to the corner of the mouth; it is as high as 

 the supralabial scales plus the lower temporal scales. The 

 hemipenes of the two males are 18 subcaudal scale units long, 

 there are prominent lobes on a shaft 13 units long. The sulcus 

 spermaticus forks on the shaft at scale six (type) or seven 

 (paratype). Proximally on the shaft there are very fine spines 



and, in the retracted organ, longitudinal folds. From scale 

 nine to the cleft there are large spines, about 26 in the type 

 and 38 in the paratype; these are high counts for Clelia. At 

 the base of each lobe there is a large spine, as is usual in 

 Clelia. the branch sulcus passes down the middle of an area of 

 large calyces with a clear margin (a capitulum). 



Inspection of The Natural History Museum register raises a 

 doubt about the provenance of the Dominica specimen. G.A. 

 Ramage brought back a collection of herpetological speci- 

 mens from Dominica and St Lucia. These were registered in 

 1889. They are entered in Boulenger's hand. The register 

 starts (with present identifications substituted): 



89.8.14. 1-8 Typhlops dominicana Dominica, June '89 



