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abdominals. Femoral pores thirteen. Thirty-four transverse rows 

 on the abdomen. 



. Median dorsal region brown, becoming blackish and then black 

 anteriorly, the lateral border pale brown posteriorly, but becoming 

 white anteriorly. A broad, black lateral band from orbit to above 

 femur, bounded below^ by a narrow white stripe. Head brown on 

 sides and above; limbs lead colored above. Inferior surfaces bluish- 

 white ; tail with the scales darker at the base than elsewhere. Near 

 the base of the tail the darker color is leaden, but at the middle and 

 beyond it passes to bluish and blue ; and the pale portion varies in 

 a corresponding way to pale blue. No black lines on posterior face 

 of femur. 



Length to vent, 57 mm.; do. of fore limb from axilla, 16 mm.; 

 do. of hind limb, 35 mm. ; of hind foot, 21 mm. 



This very handsome species is allied to the A. polops Cope of St. 

 Croix, but differs in several respects. The median dorsal scales are 

 not enlarged, as in that species, and there are five fewer femoral 

 pores, and the lateral caudal scales are keeled, not smooth. The 

 coloring is quite different. In the A. polops the dorsal region is 

 olive-gray, and there are three white longitudinal lines on each side 

 and a pair of black lines on the posterior face of the femur. 



"This handsome species was found only on Great Inagua where they 

 occur very commonly. The colors are very bright during life and 

 this fact, as well as their activity, makes them very pretty objects to 

 watch. Much smaller than Ameiva thoracica, which was not found 

 on Inagua, and perhaps even more active, they are extremely diffi- 

 cult to catch, and specimens were only secured by recourse to the 

 shot-gun. They frequent the paths and roadsides and the rocks 

 about the shores." 



Jamaica. 

 Bufo agua Daud. 



"This great toad is very common in the meadows along the streams 

 about Lucea, Jamaica, where they are called frogs. Quite nocturnal 

 in habit they spend the day in burrows beneath stones and rubbish, 

 and at night come forth to splash through the water and rank grass 

 along the shores of streams. When the light from a bulls-eye 

 lantern is flashed on them they crouch and attempt to conceal them- 

 selves. In the water they are quite at home and swim easily, but 

 on land progress in a very lumbering way, the legs seeming too weak 



