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to the angle of mouth. Broad dark crossbands on the upper surface of 

 the distal part of tail. Under surfaces white, with the exception of the 

 throat, belly, and under parts of the tail, which are beautifully pink. 



Measurements : Total length 290 mm; length of the body 100 mm. 

 From nose to ear 24 mm, from nose to eye 10 mm; length of fore 

 limb 50 mm : length of bind limb 80 mm; length of 4 th toe from the 

 angle between 4 tb and 5 tb toe 34 mm. 



Habitat: Peru, La Merced. 1000 m above the sea-level. 



Liolaemus signifer Dum. Bibr. 



Bell, Zool. Beagle. Rept. p. 8, pl. 4, fig. 1. — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II, 

 p. 154. — Koslowsky, Revista clel Museo de la Plata, Tom 8. 



5 specimens from Guaqui, Peru. 140 — 207mm in total length; 

 4 males and 1 female 



In three specimens the ground-colour is grassgreen, in one (the 

 female) light brown, and in the fiftli one brown with a nice tint of 

 greyish blue. In all there are two rows of dark spots regularly arranged 

 on each side of the body and of that shape which is characteristic for 

 the species; in some specimens, however, the spots are less distinct and 

 more irregulär than in other. The Upper part of the head is in all 

 uniform brown and the whole lower surface whitish with green longitudinal 

 spots, especially on breast and chin. The scales are very small and 

 numerous, varying from 78 to 90 around the body. Generally the scales 

 of the sides" are distinctly smaller than those of the back, but in two 

 specimens this difference in the size of the scales is almost invisible, and I was 

 very much in doubt wether these specimens should be reckoned to Cope's 

 species L. multiformes, but being in other respects completely similar 

 to the other specimens with distinctly unlike-sized scales, I could 

 not distinguish them specifically. Later on I have seen Koslowsky, 

 though with V, refer L. multiformis Cope as a synonym to one 

 of the numerous varieties he gives of L. signifer Dum. Bibr., and 

 it seems to me very probable that the two forms are not to be maintained 

 as distinct species, but the L. multiformis Cope being instead reckoned 

 as a more large-scaled variety of the very much varying L. signifer. 

 The difference between the forms, being stated on account of the number 

 <>f the anal pores, also seems to have no value. In Boulengers Catalogue 

 these are mentioned to be five or six in L. multiformis but only 

 four in L. signifer; in all my specimens, however, also in the typical 

 signifer -specimens, they are six, possibly five in one, but never four. 



