. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 197 above the commissure of the jaws; eight or nine supralabials to a point below the center of the eye, the last ones hornlike, the anterior ones quite smooth; tympanum elliptical, erect, large; eight lower labials to the center of the eye, the posterior ones bluntly ridged and swollen; a series of enlarged malar scales, the posterior ones swollen and heavily ridged and separated from the lower labials by one (ante- riorly) to five (posteriorly) rows of scales mostly of very small size; dorsal and ventral scale
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 197 above the commissure of the jaws; eight or nine supralabials to a point below the center of the eye, the last ones hornlike, the anterior ones quite smooth; tympanum elliptical, erect, large; eight lower labials to the center of the eye, the posterior ones bluntly ridged and swollen; a series of enlarged malar scales, the posterior ones swollen and heavily ridged and separated from the lower labials by one (ante- riorly) to five (posteriorly) rows of scales mostly of very small size; dorsal and ventral scales rhomboidal, obliquely keeled, the keels pointing toward the median line; dorsal scales very small, about 60 scales measured posteriorly from the axilla contained in the distance from end of snout to anterior edge of tympanum; ventral scales slightly larger than dorsals but less heavily keeled; from the occiput along the median line of the body and tail a series of enlarged scales ^CCX^y. Figure 62.—Cyclura cornuta cornuta: a, Top of head; b, side of head. No. 82107, from Petite Gonave Island, Haiti. Natural size. forming a high serrated crest, which is greatly reduced on the neck and on the rump; scales of the caudal crest somewhat larger and heavier than the others; about 21 scales in the nuchal and 48 in the dorsal portions of the crest; throat covered with scales smaller and smoother than the ventrals; sides of neck with numerous folds; a large longitudinal gular fold, with a smaller transverse fold behind it; a rather weakly developed lateral fold; upper surfaces of forelimbs and hindlimbs with slightly imbricate keeled scales much larger than the dorsals, on the lower arm about three and on the tibia about two scales to the height of the rostral; no highly spinose tibial scales; a double series of femoral pores, about 19 in the upper row; inner side of second toe with one comb, of third toe with two combs, the proximal the larger; a tendency to form a comb on
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