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brachials slightly larger, postbrachials distinctly larger than those 

 of this species; the largest of the outer tibials is larger than that of 

 A. pleii, and also much wider; in A. pleii the width of this scale is 

 about twice that of the adjacent scale proximally, while in A. garmani 

 the two plates are about equal; upper side of the wrist covered with 

 scales rather irregularly arranged; about thirty scales in the fifteenth 

 ring from the base. 



Coloration: — Lighter in color than A. pleii, with numerous pale, 

 blue-gray or straw-color spots posteriorly, giving the legs the appear- 

 ance of being gray reticulated with brown instead of brown with gray 

 spots as in yl. pleii; the heavy blotching extending down the tail, the 

 spots being often bordered anteriorly with a zigzag rim of dark brown. 



Remarks: — The relationship of this form to A. pleii is so close that a 

 detailed description is not necessary. The description was made of 

 an adult male that measured one hundred and twenty-six millimeters 

 from snout to vent. Only one example seen. 



Ameiva erythrocephala (Daudin). 



Ameiva punctata Gray, Ann. nat. hist., 1838, p. 277; Boulenger, Cat. lizards 

 Brit, mus., 1885, 2, p. 35^. Zool. record. Reptiles, 1887, p. 11. 



Description:— Adult male; M. C. Z. 10378. St. Christopher, W. I. ; 

 1914; G.K.Noble. 



Rostral forming an acute angle behind; nostril between the two 

 nasals; anterior pair of nasals just in contact behind rostral; fronto- 

 nasal longer than wide in contact with the loreal; prefrontals broadly 

 in contact; frontal in contact with the first supraocular posteriorly, 

 with the second supraocular anteriorly, the posterior half separated 

 by a single row of granules; a pair of frontoparietals separated from 

 the third supraocular by one to four rows of granules, five occipitals, 

 the three median in a transverse row and slightly anterior to the outer 

 two; nine supraciliaries, the posterior four small; four supraoculars, 

 the posterior smallest and followed by a large granule, the first sepa- 

 rated from the loreal ; three posterior supraoculars separated from the 

 supraciliaries by a double row of granules ending anteriorly in a large 

 granule; last supraocular separated from the outer occipitals by four 

 or five rows of granules; six and seven supralabials; six inf ralabials ; 

 between infralabials and chin-shields a wedge of one or two rows of 

 granules extending anteriorl}^ to the first chin-shield ; chin and throat 

 covered with minute granules, a band of slightly larger ones extending 

 across the middle, the median ones and two groups slightly anterior 



