AEKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 11. N:o 16. 



New Lizards from South America. 



Collected by Nils HolmgTeu and A. Roman. 



By 

 LARS GABRIEL ANDERSSON. 



Communicated January l:st 1918 by Chr. Aurivillius and E. Lönnberg. 



Diiring a journey for entomological purposes to the Ama- 

 zonas Doctor A. Roman has made a sraall collection of ba- 

 trachians and lizards, whieh be presented to tbe Vertebrate 

 Department of tbe Royal Museum of Nat. History, Stock- 

 bolm. By tbe kindness of tbe keeper of tbis department, 

 Professor E. Lönnberg, I bave get an opportunity of exam- 

 ining tbem, and by tbis tbe collection proved to contain six 

 species of frogs, all well known before, viz. Biijo typhonius L., 

 Hyla nihra Daud., H. pimctata Schn., H. appendiculata Blgr, 

 //. auraiitiaca Daud., and H. leucophyllata Be i ris. Of tbe 

 four species of lizards, bowever, no less tban tbree will be 

 described as new below: Sphcerodactylus amazonicus, Teretio- 

 scincus romani and Mahuia nigropalmata. 



Stränge to say, I bave also found among some unexam- 

 ined lizards, brougbt bome from Bolivia by Dr. N. Holm- 

 gren, tbis -same species of Mahuia, and moreover a species 

 of Uraniscodon, wbicli I am not able to identify witb a ny of 

 tbe species of tbis genus bitberto described. 



Sphapiodactylus amazon i ciis n. sp. 



Snout rounded, as long as tbe orbital diameter, or as tbe 

 distance between tbe eye and tbe ear-opening; tbe latter 



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