BASILISCUS. 55 
Hab. Costa Rica (Bocourt, Rogers); Panama (Cope), Isthmus of Darien (Cope), Island 
of Quibo (‘Herald’). 
' Doubtful localities are Guiana and Martinique (Paris Mus. and Fernando do 
Norunha, given by Gray, Lizards, p. 194. 
2. Basiliscus plumifrons. 
Basiliscus plumifrons, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. viii. 1876, p. 125, t. 25. fig. 1. 
Hab. Costa Rica. 
3. Basiliscus vittatus. (Tab. XXVIII.) 
Basiliscus vittatus, Wiegm. Isis, 1828, p. 373 ; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gén. iv. p. 187; Sumichrast, Arch. 
Se. Phys. et Nat. 1864, xix. p.56; Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiii. 1864, p. 504; Bocourt, Miss. 
Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 129, t. 17. fig. 3; Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. viii. 1876, p. 125. 
Corytheolus vittatus, Kaup, Isis, 1829, p. 1147; Wiegm. Herpet. Mex. p. 89, t. 5. 
Cristasaura mitrella, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1852, x. p. 439. 
Basiliscus americanus, Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 453. 
Daconura bivittata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 482. 
Paroloma bivitiata, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1862, p. 181. 
Basiliscus nuchalis, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1862, p. 181. 
Hab. Mexico (generally distributed in the warmer and temperate parts, near rivers), 
Putla (Rébouch), Orizaba (rit. Mus.), Hacienda del Hobo (Geddes) ; GuaTEMALA, 
common at Lanquin and Dueiias, and in the lower forests of Vera Paz (Salvin) ; 
Howpuras (Dyson); Nicaragua, Greytown (Caldwell) ; Costa Rica, Sipurio (Cope). 
—Ecvapor (fraser). 
“* Pasarios”’ of the Mexicans ; “ Zumbichi” of the Zapotec Indians. 
Found to a height of 1000 metres (Sumichrast). 
Mr. Salvin (/. c.) observes :—“ This Basilisk is very common at Lanquin, where I 
had no difficulty in obtaining plenty of specimens of both sexes and all ages, by 
offering the Indians a small reward for all they brought. They may frequently be 
seen on the low branches of a bush, and are particularly fond of basking on the boughs 
of a felled tree in a clearing near a stream. When running fast they carry the tail 
slightly elevated. At Duefias this species is more rare; I saw but three or four spe- 
cimens, and only succeeded in securing one. In some specimens of the males, the tail 
is much more compressed than in others. In the series of young the crest is shown in 
all stages of development.” 
Extralimital is Basttiscus eateritus, A. Dum., or Péenosaura seemanni, Gray, from 
Ecuador and Colombia. 
