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A M E I V A .—Cuvier. 



Genus Ameiva. — Characters. Head sub-pyramidal, and covered with plates 

 above; there are palatine and maxillary teeth — of the latter, the anterior are 

 simple, the posterior tricuspid; membrane of the tympanum visible, but depressed 

 below the margin of the meatus; tongue bifid, and covered with rhomboidal, 

 squamiform papillae; throat with a double fold; body above covered with minute 

 scales; abdomen with smooth quadrilateral plates; the extremities are granulated 

 above, with large scales below; there are femoral pores, and each extremity has 

 four or five distinct fingers or toes, all armed with nails. 



AMEIVA SEX-LINEAT A.— Linnxus. 



Plate XV. 



Characters. Body elongated, dark brown above, marked with six yellow, 

 longitudinal lines; abdomen bluish silver-white; tail cyhndrical, very long, and 

 covered with verticillated scales, carinated above, smooth below. 



Synonymes. Lacerta sex-lineata, Linnse%is, Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 364; exclus. syn. Catesby. 

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

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

 Le Lezarcl a six raies, Daudln, Hist. Nat. des Rejjt., torn. iii. p. 1S3. 

 Six-lined Lizard, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. p. 240. 

 Lacerta sex-lineata, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 144. 



Cnemidophorus sex-lineatus, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Kept., torn. v. p. 131. 

 Striped Lizard, Vulgo. 



