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Teiidae. 

 51. Ameiva aubeei Cocteau. 

 Plate 14, fig. 14. 

 Corre-costa; Culebrina (Santiago de Cuba). 



Diagnosis: — An oUvaceous brown ground-lizard generally with three nar- 

 row Ught stripes on the back, and a broad dark lateral stripe on each side. A 

 shy and swiftly moving species, with an acutely pointed head and a very long 

 round tail. 



Desmpfoon;— Adult d' M. C. Z. 7,277. Cuba: Camaguey, 1908. Thomas 

 Barbour. 



Rostral forming a Uttle more than a right angle behind; nostril on the 

 posterior edge of the anterior nasal; anterior pair of nasals broadly in contact 

 behind the rostral ; frontonasal as long as wide, in contaifet with the loreal ; pre- 

 frontals broadly in contact; frontal in contact with the first and second supra- 

 ocular ; a pair of frontoparietals in contact with the third supraocular for nearly 

 their entire length; five occipitals in a transverse row, the two in contact with 

 the median, largest; seven supraciliaries ; three supraoculars, the first separ- 

 ated from the loreal; two posterior supraoculars separated from the supra- 

 ciUaries by a double row of granules; last supraocular separated from the outer 

 occipitals by three rows of small scales; seven large supralabials ; five large 

 infralabials; between the infralabials and chin-shields a wedge of one to three 

 rows of granules extending anteriorly to the first chin-shield; chin and throat 

 covered with granules, an indistinct band of very sUghtly larger ones extending 

 across the middle, the median ones forming an ill-defined central group of 

 slightly enlarged scales; on the area between the two throat- folds several rows 

 of large hexagonal scales; under side of the body with ten longitudinal and 

 thirty-five transverse rows of plates; preanal plates, two anterior median 

 and three posterior marginal ones; on the lower arm a double row of ante- 

 brachials, one much wider than the other, both decreasing in width towards 

 the elbow joint; on the upper arm a similar but narrower single row of brachials 

 continuous with the antebrachials; on the posterior side near the elbow a small 

 group of enlarged postbrachials ; under side of the thighs covered with six or 

 seven series of hexagonal plates of which the outer series is considerably larger 

 than the others; thirteen and fourteen femoral pores; on the under side of the 



