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as Grand Isle; lying about half a mile off shore from Petit Bourg, 

 Guadeloupe. This island, only some fifty yards in extent, consists 

 of a low tangled mass of vegetation upon a "coral" foundation. In 

 character it is similar to the Isle of Grande Terre (a part of Guadeloupe 

 politically) and from which it has doubtless beeh separated in com- 

 paratively recent geologic times. Since any considerable uplift would 

 raise the bench bank on which the islands of Grande Terre and Guade- 

 loupe both stand and bring both into connection with Grand Isle. 

 The entire area between Grand Isle and both the main islands is 

 simply an enormous cul-dc-sac which is extremely shallow. There 

 certainly cannot be more than a dozen or two of these Ameiva in this 

 place. Observations made by the Junior author in Guadeloupe seem 

 to show that this is the last place where the Guadeloupe Ameiva 

 occurs. 



Ameiva fuscata Garman. 



Description:— Adult male; Type M. C. Z. 6087. Dominica, B. 

 W. I.; 1879; S. Garman. 



Rostral forming slightly more than a right angle behind; nostril 

 between the two nasals broadly in contact behind rostral ; frontonasal 

 longer than wide in contact with the loreal; prefrontals in broad 

 contact; frontal in contact with the first two supraoculars, separated 

 from the third supraocular by one to three rows of granules ; occipitals 

 irregular, a median group of three small ones, on each side of this a 

 very large scale, further to the side and posterior to these two scales, 

 a group of two or three small ones; nine supraciliaries; three supra- 

 oculars, the first separated from the loreal ; two posterior supraoculars 

 separated from the supraciliaries by one or two rows of granules; last 

 supraocular separated from the outer occipitals by four or five rows of 

 granules; six supralabials ; six and seven infralabials; between in- 

 fralabials and chin-shields a wedge of one or two rows of granules 

 and scales extending anteriorly to only the second chin-shield; chin 

 and throat covered with minute granules of somewhat var;^dng size, 

 a band of distinctly larger ones extending across the middle, the 

 median scutes enlarged to form an ill-defined group; on the area 

 between the two throat folds three or four transverse rows of scales, 

 the middle row widest, the scales of all the rows grading off sharply 

 in size from the mid-region; under side of body with fourteen longi- 

 tudinal and thirty-four transverse rows of scales; preanal plates in a 

 longitudinal, median row of four large plates with several scales on 

 each side, the posterior ones largest; on the lower arm three rows of 



