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bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



List of specimens examined. 



No. of 

 M. C. Z. speci- 

 No. mens Ages Sexes 



Locality Date Collector Remarks 



8691-95 5 all both Diquini, Haiti 1913 W. M. Mann Descrip. 



8742 1 yg. 9 Manneville, Haiti 1913 W. M. Mann Descrip. of 



young. 

 3614 3 ad. both Jeremie, Haiti 1859 D. F. Wein- Type of A. 



land taeniura. 



5441 1 ad. cf Puerto Plata, San 1885 M. A. Frazar 



Domingo 



3608 5 all both Jeremie, Haiti D. F. Wein- 



land 



3609 1 ad. d' Jeremie, Haiti D. F. Wein- 



land 



Ameiva vittipunctata Cope. 



Description: — Adult male; M. 

 1913; W. M. Mann. 



C. Z. 8618. Manneville, Haiti; 



Rostral forming an acute angle behind; nostril on posterior part 

 of anterior nasal; anterior pair of nasals in contact for but a fraction 

 of their length behind rostral; frontonasal as long as wide in contact 

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

 with the first and second supraoculars; a pair of frontoparietals in 

 contact with the third supraocular anteriorly; five occipitals in a 

 transverse row, the median slightly larger than the others; seven and 

 eight supraciliaries ; three large supraoculars and a small scale poste- 

 rior to them, the first supraocular 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 two rows of small scales and several rows of granules; five and six 

 supralabials ; five large infralabials; between the infralabials and the 

 chin-shields a wedge of one to three rows on granules extending 

 anteriorly to the postmental; chin and throat covered with granules, 

 a band of slightly enlarged scutes extending across the middle, the 

 median ones forming a distinct group of slightly larger ones; on the 

 area between the two throat folds several rows of large hexagonal 

 scales; under side of the body with twelve longitudinal and thirty- 

 eight transverse rows of plates; preanal plates in a marginal row of 

 eight scales, median smallest, and in a double median series of about 

 four pairs; on the lower arm two narrow, one very wide, rows of ante- 

 brachials separated from the brachials by several rows of small scales; 



