University, T: Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 1980-19

Excerpt from Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 1980-1981, Vol. 22

Lazell described the female holotype in life as follows: a dull-colored animal with a pattern composed of three basic hues each tending to be unique on an individual scale. There are very irregular dark gray-brown blotches across the dor sum; beginning at the back of the head there are three such markings to the Shoulders. There are three more crudely 'y' shaped markings on the body, the most anterior of which bifurcates to the right, the remaining ones bifurcating to the left. There are two small blotches on the right side of the rump and one on the left. The second transverse blotch, on the nape, is broken by a light middorsal line that continues down through the fourth marking and then fades out. The ground color of the dorsum is ash gray. There are scattered over the dorsal surface short transverse series of white or partly white scales from two to four in a row that appear to have no correlation whatever with the rest of the animal's pattern. The top of the head is ash gray except for a very irregular, dark, gray-brown blotch on the parietal area. Coming back from the eye are two stripes, one of which runs downward across the check; the other nearly connects with the first transverse marking on the back of the head Along each side of the animal is a line of partially connected, small, dark, gray brown blotches; just ventral to this row is another composed of widely Spaced, single dark, gray-brown scales.

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