GERRHONOTUS. 4] 
14. Gerrhonotus moreletii. (Tab. XXIV. fig. C.) 
Gerrhonotus wiegmanni, Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 455. 
Gerrhonotus moreletii, Bocourt, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. 1872, p. 102; and Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. 
p. 349, t. 21. fig. 1 and t. 21 B. figg. 5. 
Gerrhonotus fulvus, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 352, t. 21 8. figg. 6. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Bocourt); Guatemata, Lanquin, Duefias, and Rio Chisoy, 
below the town of Cubulco (Salvin), Peten (Morelet), pine-forests of Totonicapam 
(Bocourt). 
Dorsal scales keeled, in twenty, nuchal scales in fourteen or sixteen, ventral in twelve 
longitudinal series. Nasal shield not in contact with the rostral. Normally seven 
shields on the upper surface of the snout, between the vertical and rostral, which are 
a—a! 
b—b! 
c 
disposed thus , shield ¢ being always large, in contact with the vertical, and 
d—d! 
sometimes confluent with d and d'. The a and 6 series also show sometimes irregu- 
larities of arrangement. Supranasals present. Brownish olive, irregularly marbled and 
spotted with black and yellowish. 
15. Gerrhonotus liocephalus, 
Gerrhonotus liocephalus, Wiegm. Isis, 1828, p. 379; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 342, t. 21a. 
figg. 1, 2, 2a. 
Scincus (Pterogastenes) ventralis, Peale & Green, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1838, vi. p. 233. 
Gerrhonotus tessellatus, Wiegm. Herpetol. Mex. p. 32, t. 10. fig. 3; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gén. v. 1839, 
p- 405; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 53; Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 321. 
Gerrhonotus infernalis, Baird, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1858, p, 255; Cope, 1. c. p. 322. 
Gerrhonotus ventralis, Cope, l.c. p. 321. 
Gerrhonotus ophiurus, Cope, |. c. p. 321. 
Gerrhonotus lemniscatus, Bocourt, Nouv. Arch. Mus. 1872, p. 105. 
Hab. Nort America, Texas, Devil’s River (Baird)—MeExico, Oaxaca, Guanajuato 
(Bocourt), Cordova (Sallé). : 
Dorsal scales keeled, in sixteen, ventral in twelve (ten) longitudinal series. Nasal 
shield not in contact with the rostral. ‘Ten shields on the upper surface of the snout, 
between the vertical and rostral, of which one pair are the supranasals (s), and which 
a a) 
(2 
s 3s! 
are disposed thus < 55, 
\.. Brownish-olive, with a series of blackish spots along the 
aa 
lateral fold, and with scattered triangular or subquadrangular darker spots of the size 
of a scale; these spots are sometimes contiguous and form irregular transverse bands, 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rept., October 1885. *6 
