. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 739 Vertical iilate subhexagonal, long, maintaining its width posteriorly to the point wliere it enters between the occipitals. Occipitals long anteriorly and posteriorly angular, rounded exteriorly. Postfroutals polygonal, entering into the orbit. Prefrontals proportionally small and sub triangular. Eostral very broad. Nostril in the middle of the nasal, with a groove beneath. Eyes very large. Loreal narr
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 739 Vertical iilate subhexagonal, long, maintaining its width posteriorly to the point wliere it enters between the occipitals. Occipitals long anteriorly and posteriorly angular, rounded exteriorly. Postfroutals polygonal, entering into the orbit. Prefrontals proportionally small and sub triangular. Eostral very broad. Nostril in the middle of the nasal, with a groove beneath. Eyes very large. Loreal narrow, forming with the postfrontals the anterior portion of the orbit. Superciliaries large, ehmgated, sides undulated. Two rounded postorbitals, lower one smallest. A very long temporal shield extending backward beyond the occipitals, and two or three smaller ones scarcely distinguishable from the scales. Mouth deeply cleft. Upper labials, seven, sixth larger; lower labials, seven, fourth larger. Two pairs of mental shields, pos- terior pair smallest, extending backward beyond the fourth inferior labial. Scales subrhomboidal, smooth, constituting nineteen longitudi-. Fig. 15:j. AbASTOB ERyTHROGRAMMUS DaCDIN. Georgetown, South Carolina. Cut. No. 5556, nal rows; outer rows considerably larger; the others nearly equal amongst themselves, except the second row, which is somewhat larger. Ground color above bluish black. Dorsal longitudinal red line nar- row, embracing only the medial rows of scales, extending from the occipitals to a little way bejond the anus. On each side of this there are three rows of scales of the ground color. Then a longitudinal red line, broader than the medial one, though covering only one row of scales, then again three rows of the ground color. Of the remaining two outer rows of scales the outermost is uniform reddish yellow, and the bases of the scales of the second row have a spot of bluish black. Beneath, two series of bluish black subelliptica
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