432 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



List of specimens examined. 



No.fof 

 M.C.Z. speci- 

 No. mens Ages Sexes Locality Date Collector Remarks 



6965 14 all both New Providence Is- 1904 T. Barbour Descrip. 



land, Bahamas & G. M. Allen 



7096 9 all both New Providence Is- 1904 A. E. Wight 



land, Bahamas 

 6948 6 all both Mangrove Cay, An- 1904 O. Bryant 



dros Island, Bahamas 

 5823 3 ad. d' Bahamas 1886 C.J.Maynard 



6243 2 ad. d' New Providence Is- 1888 C. S. Dolley 



land, Bahamas 

 6912 1 ad. cf New Providence Is- 1900 T. Barbour 



land, Bahamas 



A]\JEIVA CHRYSOLAEMA Cope. 



Description:— Adult male; M. C. Z. 8622. Manneville, Haiti; 

 1913; W.M.Mann. 



Rostral forming an acute angle behind; nostril on the posterior 

 part of the anterior nasal; anterior pair of nasals broadly in contact 

 behind 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 separated from the 

 third supraocular by a row of granules; five occipitals in a transverse 

 row the three median ones about the same size and very much larger 

 than the outer ones ; three large supraciliaries and four or five smaller 

 ones; four supraoculars, the first separated from the loreal; three 

 posterior supraoculars separated from the supraciliaries by a double 

 row of granules; five and six large supralabials; six and seven large 

 infralabials; between infralabials and chin-shields a wedge of one 

 to three rows of granules extending anteriorly to the postmental; 

 chin and throat covered with minute granules; a scarcely differenti- 

 ated band of large scales extending across the mid-region of which the 

 median granules are largest; on the area between the two throat 

 folds there are a few rows of large hexagonal scales; under side of the 

 body with ten longitudinal and thirty-six transverse rows of plates; 

 preanal plates in a triangular group four scales wide at the base and 

 three scales in height, the larger scales in the middle; on the lower 

 arm a double row of antebrachials, one very much wider than the 

 other, both breaking up in the mid-region into six or seven series of 

 small scales; on the upper arm two rows, proximally three rows of 



