. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. pp /cp. Fig. 3. Clelia errabunda, BMNH 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
. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. pp /cp. Fig. 3. Clelia errabunda, BMNH 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 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. 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): 1-8 Typhlops dominicana Dom
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