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and two more have two on each side, a fifth has two on one 

 side and one on the other, while the sixth has the temporals 

 completely absent. The seventh was not examined on that 

 point. 



The obvious conclusions are that the normal scutellation is 

 19 rows of scales, loreal present, and one temporal present in 

 the first row. The most curious feature is the large percen- 

 ag-e of Releigh specimens with the loreal absent or abnormal 

 on one or both sides, a feature we would naturally expect in 

 the more southern specimens rather than in the northernmost 

 of those examined. 



