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A ME IV A. —Cwmcr. 



Genus Ameiva. — Characters. Body elongated, covered with minute scales; 

 head pyramidal, covered with plates; jaws furnished with many notched teeth; 

 tongue slender, bifid; no bony plate on the orbits; abdomen covered with rows of 

 large scales; a range of pores beneath each thigh; tail long, cylindrical, and covered 

 with verticillated scales. 



AMEIVA SEX-LINEATA. 



Plate VI. 



Characters. Body elongated; dark browTi above, marked with six yellow 

 longitudinal lines; abdomen bluish silvery white; head short, obtuse; tail cylindrical, 

 very long, and covered with verticillated scales. 



Synonvmes. Lacerta sex-lineata, Linnxiis, Syst. Nat, torn. i.p. 364; exclus. syn. Calesby. 

 Lacerta sex-lineata, Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat., torn. iii. p. 1074. 

 Le Lezard a six raies, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, torn. xvii. p. 527. 

 Le Lezard a six raies, Daudin, Hist. Nat des Rept, torn. iii. p. 183. 

 Six-lined Lizard, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. Part. I. p. 240. 

 Lacerta sex-lineata, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. vi. p. IS. 

 Striped Lizard, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is short, compressed laterally, and covered with small 

 plates. The vertical plate is pentagonal, with an acute angle forwards; there are 



