. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 726 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. LICHANURA ORCUTTI Stejneger. Liohanura orctitti Stejneger, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, p. 96, fig. 1; 1891, p. 513.—Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, p. 592. Dr. Stejneger thus describes this species, which is the form most dis- tinct from the L. trivirgata: Scales in thirty-three to thirty-five rows; eye encircled by nine or ten scales; loreals four; labials thirteen to fifteen; gastrosteg
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 726 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. LICHANURA ORCUTTI Stejneger. Liohanura orctitti Stejneger, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, p. 96, fig. 1; 1891, p. 513.—Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, p. 592. Dr. Stejneger thus describes this species, which is the form most dis- tinct from the L. trivirgata: Scales in thirty-three to thirty-five rows; eye encircled by nine or ten scales; loreals four; labials thirteen to fifteen; gastrosteges, two hundred and thirty-two; anal entire; urosteges forty-five, entire. Rostral plate very prominent, recurved, pentagonal, its nasal border twice as long as its labial; eye surrounded by a ring of scales of nearly equal size, ten on the right side, but only nine on the left; between the posterior nasal and the middle preocular two large loreal scales, and under the posterior one, wedged in between it, the middle and lower prefrontals, and fourth, fifth, and sixth supralabials, a somewhat smaller subloreal; over the posterior loreal a superloreal of medium size; nasal divided, the anterior i^late meeting the one of the other side; back of these a pair of rather large anterior prefrontals followed by four smaller posterior jirefrontals, or what corresponds to these plates where a frontal exists, the outer ones being larger thau those in the middle; posterior to these the head is covered with numerous rather irregular scales; supralabials thirteen, the first four highest; infralabials fifteen, gradually diminishing in height from the pair joining the triangular men- tal; mental fissure separating four pairs of scales; scales of body smooth, in thirty- thre to thirty-five longitudinal rows, the inferior on each side slightly larger than the Ti'st; gastrosteges narrow, two hundred and thirty-two; anal small, entire; tail short, blunt; urosteges forty-five, Li
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