. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 101 labial; temples granular like the top of the head, with a patch of very minute granules between the eye and ear; mental broad, triangular, considerably wider than rostral, its labial margin almost three times as wide as the first infralabial; two pairs of chin shields, the inner ones in contact with the mental and separated from each other by a small median scale, the scales following gradually merging into the very fine granules covering the throat; remainder of under side and of legs. Figure 34.—Aristellig
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 101 labial; temples granular like the top of the head, with a patch of very minute granules between the eye and ear; mental broad, triangular, considerably wider than rostral, its labial margin almost three times as wide as the first infralabial; two pairs of chin shields, the inner ones in contact with the mental and separated from each other by a small median scale, the scales following gradually merging into the very fine granules covering the throat; remainder of under side and of legs. Figure 34.—Aristelliger lar: a, Top of head, showing traces of temporal pattern; b, side of head; c, chin; d, underside of tail; e, underside of hindfoot; /, underside of forefoot. No. 62362, from Sinchez, Dominican Republic. One and one-half times nat- ural size. covered with smooth, cycloid, imbricate scales; about 19 abdominal scales included in the distance between end of snout and center of eye; those on under side of thighs smaller, without femoral pores; those beneath the tail transversely enlarged even in the reproduced portion; fingers and toes free, all with long, compressed, angularly raised, clawed distal phalanges; the claw of the inner digit inserted at one side and in front of the terminal scale, and with one or two enlarged padlike scales beside it; basal dilated portion with 16 or 17. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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