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Salem collection and these are now in this Museum. The other 

 specimens are four examples (M. C. Z. 3616) which are marked Jeremie, 

 Haiti, collection of Dr. D. F. Weinland. Cope had the Weinland col- 

 lection borrowed from the M. C. Z. for study at the time he described 

 Ameiva corvina and when that Haitian material was returned these 

 specimens were doubtless included. They are, we think, certainly the 

 Riise specimens which were either destined for the Smithsonian 

 or which had been borrowed from the collection by Cope before they 

 had been entered in the Washington catalogue. These examples are 

 those which Garman mentioned as types (Bull. Essex, inst., 1887, 19, 

 p. 10) but apparently without suspecting the erroneous locality, 

 Jeremie, Haiti. 



There is also the possibility that Cope really received these speci- 

 mens from Cambridge, that the mixing with Haitian material took 

 place there, and that he wrote the Smithsonian Institution by mistake 

 for the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Such a lapsus would have 

 been easy to make when he was constantly receiving specimens from 

 both institutions. In any case two of these examples have been trans- 

 ferred to the U. S. National Museum. One of the other series of 

 cotypes, from the Philadelphia Academy, has been received recently 

 in exchange. 



Habitat: — Apparently confined to the islands of Sombrero and 

 Anguilla of the Lesser Antilles. It is unusual that a small island like 

 Anguilla should have two species of Ameivas upon it, for A. garmani 

 is peculiar to that island. It is quite probable that this locality 

 record is incorrect. 



List of specimens examined. 



Ameiva pleii Dumeril et Bibron. 



Ameiva scutata Gray, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1854, p. 19. 

 Ameiva analifera Cope, Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1869, 11, p. 158. 



Description:— Adult male; M. C. Z. 6085. St. Bartholomew, F. 

 W. I.; 1880; F. Lagois. 



