. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 193 Description of the type.—An adult male, No. 44365, from Valle Nuevo, in the Cordillera Central, southeast of Constanza, Dominican Republic, at 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, collected in August 1938 by P. J. Darlington. Head short and blunt, the distance from anterior corner of eye to tip of snout slightly more than one-half the greatest width of the head (just anterior to the ears); canthus rostralis sharp, composed of three keeled scales, the second slightly the largest; two narrow superciliaries, t


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 193 Description of the type.—An adult male, No. 44365, from Valle Nuevo, in the Cordillera Central, southeast of Constanza, Dominican Republic, at 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, collected in August 1938 by P. J. Darlington. Head short and blunt, the distance from anterior corner of eye to tip of snout slightly more than one-half the greatest width of the head (just anterior to the ears); canthus rostralis sharp, composed of three keeled scales, the second slightly the largest; two narrow superciliaries, the first very long, the second short and followed by a double row of small elongate scales; loreal region slightly concave, with five transverse rows of keeled rectangular scales, the lowest row continued backward, completely separating the suboculars from the upper labials; nostrils lateral, scarcely elevated, with six keeled scales between the nasals; rostral about 2){ times as broad as deep, a little narrower than the mentals, in contact with the nasals; frontal region with two broad, low ridges covered with large. 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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