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DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES. 



Ameiva auberi Cocteau. 



Description: — Adult male; M. C. Z. 7277. Camaguey, (Puerto 

 Principe), Cuba; 1908; T. Barbour. 



Rostral forming a little 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 

 contact with the loreal; prefrontals broadly in contact; frontal in 

 contact with the first and second supraocular; 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 separated 

 from the loreal; two posterior supraoculars separated from the 

 supraciliaries by a double row of granules; last supraocular separated 

 from the outer occipitals by three rows of small scales; seven large 

 supralabials; five large inf ralabials ; 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 slightly larger ones extending across the middle, 

 the median ones forming an ill-defined central group of scarcely 

 enlarged scales; on the area between the two throat folds several 

 rows of large hexagonal scales ; under side of the body with ten longi- 

 tudinal 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 antebrachials, 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 ante- 

 brachials; on the posterior side near the elbow a small group of en- 

 larged 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 tibia two rows of plates those of the outer row 

 enormously enlarged; upper side of the wrist with a regular series of 

 transverse plates corresponding to the inner and outer metatarsals; 

 outer toe extending approximately as far as the inner; tail covered 

 with straight scales with keels; about thirty-five scales in the fifteenth 

 ring from the base. 



Coloration: — Ground color of dorsal surface olivaceous brown, 

 slightly reddish anteriorly, grayer on the tail; three poorly defined 

 narrow stripes of a lighter color on the back; the two lateral stripes 



