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Genus TRETIOSCINCUS Cope 



TRETIOSCINCUS BIFASCIATUS (Dumenl) 



1851. Heteroptis hifasciatus Dumekil, Cat. Meth. C'll. Reptiles, Mus. Paris, p. 

 182 (type locality, " Vallee de la Madeleiue, Nouvelle-Gvenade ", north- 

 eastern Colombia). 



1864. Tretioscinvus bifasciatns Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 229. 



Venezuela. — One specimen, No. 61220, collected by Theodore de 

 Boog in Perija, with 16 scale rows around the body and 4 femoral 

 pores on each thigh. 



Genus TUPINAMBIS Daudin 



TUPINAMBIS NIGROPUNCTATUS Spix 



182.5. Tupinambis uigiopunciatus Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Brazil, p. 18 (type 

 locality, Brazil). 



Brazil. — Three specimens, No. 38114, supposedly from Para, and 

 Nos. 28953-54, taken at Hyutaihan by J. B. Steere. 



British Guiana. — One specimen. No. 12548, brought from Suri- 

 nam by C. J. Hering. 



Peru. — ^Three specimens, Nos. 60678-80, found in the Valley of the 

 Kio Comberciato, near the great bend of the Kio Urubamba at an 

 altitude of 1,800 feet by Edmund Heller in September, 1915. 



Trinidad. — Three specimens, Nos. 17551, 17719, and 32136, col- 

 lected at Port of Spain by G. T. Waj^man. 



TUPINAMBIS RUFESCENS (Gunther) 



1871. Tejm rufescens GfJNTHEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 541 (type locality, 

 Mendoza, Argentina). 



ArgentirM — Six specimens, Nos. 7350(>-50&, collected by the Byerer 

 Bros., No. 22735 from the Province of Buenos Aires, No. 12315 

 from E.io Vermejo, received from the La Plata expedition, and No. 

 47952 from Santa Fe, Rio Salada, the latter collected by W. Frakes. 



TUPINAMBIS TEGUIXIN (Linnaeus) 



1758. Lacerta tegulx'm Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, v(>l. 1, p. 208 (typ*© 

 locality, South America). 



Brazil. — Three sp)eciinens. No. 12150. collected by Captain Page, 

 No. 59056, taken in 1905 from Bahia. and No. 58618 from Sant;i 

 Catharina, the last two being part of the Hurter collection. 



