. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 377 on the body 45 cinnamon crossbars about 1 scale in length and edged posteriorly with a ragged dark border which is especially emphasized towards the outer ends of the bars, which do not extend below the fourth scale row; on the tail and posterior body the bars dorsally are defi- nitely broken up, leaving alternating lateral spots of cinnamon irreg- larly pervaded with black; ventral surface buff-pink, the outer ends of the scales heavily powdered with gray dots; two very irregular mid- ventral series of squa
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 377 on the body 45 cinnamon crossbars about 1 scale in length and edged posteriorly with a ragged dark border which is especially emphasized towards the outer ends of the bars, which do not extend below the fourth scale row; on the tail and posterior body the bars dorsally are defi- nitely broken up, leaving alternating lateral spots of cinnamon irreg- larly pervaded with black; ventral surface buff-pink, the outer ends of the scales heavily powdered with gray dots; two very irregular mid- ventral series of squarish patches likewise composed of gray dots, and tending to run together into parallel stripes towards the end of the body; labials and chin with a heavy powdering of very pale gray dots which tend to become more numerous around the borders of the chin-shields. ^'Remarks.—This second known species of the genus has a grooved fang exactly like that of laUris dorsalis. It cannot be said to resemble. Figure 117.—lallris parishi: a, Top of head; h, side of head; c, chin. No. 80773, type, from 10 miles east of Earaderes, Haiti. Natural size. dorsalis very closely, inasmuch as the coloration is very different and the number of ventrals is considerabl}/^ less in the new species. The flatness and width of the head of the type suggested an adult Alsophis anomalus at first glance, but the teeth are utterly different. "The headplates of the new species are quite similar to those of dorsalis, excepting that the frontal is shorter in proportion to its width in the former. The white diagonal line bordered with black above and below leading backwards from the eye in parishi is represented in dorsalis by the wide black streak that forms the outer stroke of the W-shaped head marking, but which in dorsalis does not drop to the commissure of the ; The type is still the onl3^ known example in museum collections. 226849—41- -25. Please note that these images are extrac
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