BARBOUR AND NOBLE: LIZARDS OF THE GENUS AMEIVA. 447 



Remarks: — The description was made of an adult male that meas- 

 ured one hundred and twenty-two milHmeters from snout to vent. 



The confusion of the locahties of Plee's specimens has already been 

 discussed by Stejneger (Herpetology of Porto Rico. Kept. U. S. N. M. 

 for 1902, 1904, p. 622-623) and by Barbour (Recent notes regarding 

 West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., March 

 12, 1915, 23, p. 73). A. pleii, like so many other of Plee's species, 

 was described as coming from Martinique. Since, however, A. anali- 

 fera and A. pleii are the same it is reasonable to assume that A. pleii 

 originally came from St. Bartholomew' where Plee probably touched 

 on his way to Martinique. This leaves the Martinique Ameiva 

 unknown, as indeed it will probably remain, because the introduced 

 mongoose has for a long time been common there and every year does 

 increasing harm to the fauna. 



Habitat: — Confined to the closely associated islands of St. Martin 

 and St. Bartholomew. 



List of specimens examined. 



Ameiva garmani Barbour. 



Description:— M\x\t male; Type M. C. Z. 6141; Anguilla Island; 

 1880; F. Lagois. 



Similar to .4. pleii in scutation from which it may be distinguished 

 by the following characters : — median band of gular scales made up 

 of larger and more irregularly arranged granules than those of A. pleii; 



' An old specimen, and not improbably one of the tj-pes of the species, doubtless 

 received from the Paris museum, whence came all the early material in the M. C. Z. 

 labeled "Martinique." 



