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Ameiva aquilina Garman. 



Description:— Adult male; Tipe M. C. Z. 6088. Grenada, B. W. 

 L; 1879; S. Garman. 



Rostral forming a trifle less than a right angle behind; nostril 

 between the two nasals; anterior pair of nasals broadly in contact 

 behind rostral; frontonasal longer than wide in broad contact with 

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

 first two supraoculars, with the second for its entire length; a pair 

 of frontoparietals separated from the third supraocular by one or 

 two rows of granules; five subequal occipitals, the three median ones 

 in a transverse line, the other two beyond these and slightly posterior; 

 seven supraciliaries; four supraoculars, the first separated from the 

 loreal; the three posterior supraoculars separated from the supracili- 

 aries by a single row of granules ending anteriorly in a large granule, 

 last supraocular separated from the outer occipitals by two or three 

 rows of granules; five large supralabials; six infralabials ; between 

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

 scales extending anteriorly half the length of the second chin-shield; 

 chin and throat covered with minute granules, a band of distinctly 

 larger ones extending across the middle, the median scales largest and 

 forming an ill-defined group; on the area between the two throat folds 

 three or four transverse rows of scales all about the same size; under 

 side of the body with fourteen longitudinal and thirty-three transverse 

 rows of plates, the outer very small; preanal plates irregular, placed 

 more or less in a series of transverse rows, a median group of four scales 

 largest; on the lower arm three rows of antebrachials, outer row con- 

 siderably larger than the two inner which are somewhat irregular, the 

 series extending to the brachials; on the upper arm three rows of 

 brachials the median row slightly the largest ; on the posterior side near 

 the elbow joint a small group of postbrachials; under side of thighs 

 covered with four rows distally, with fifteen proximally, outer row 

 just above the knee formed of wider scales; eighteen and nineteen 

 femoral pores ; on the under side of the tibia five regular rows of plates, 

 the second and third scale proximally of the outer row largest; upper 

 side of the wrist with a regular series of transverse plates correspond- 

 ing to the inner and outer metatarsals; outer toe extending a little 

 further than the inner; tail covered with straight, keeled scales; 

 about forty -one scales in the fifteenth ring from the base. 



Coloration: — Dorsal surface olive-brown more bluish on the sides 

 of the head and appendages; on either side of the body a broad 

 rufous brown band, the edges of which are somewhat undulating, ex- 

 tending part way down the tail; sides of the body with four or five 

 longitudinal rows of pale blue or milky spots; ventral surface straw- 



