ART. 6 



SOUTH AMERICAN LIZARDS C. E. AND M. D. BURT 



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Specimens of this form from the same locality may show both 

 smooth and keeled dorsal scales on the same or on different indi- 

 viduals (Nusta Hispafia). 



The variation in the specimens of this species in the collection of 

 the United States National Museum has been well discussed by 

 Stejneger (1913) and Barbour and Noble (1921). 



No. 



Locality 



60726-27 

 60748 



60699-700 



60719 



49549 



60746 



49551-52 



Date 



May 10, 1915 



June 11, 1915 



Torenton, Peru, 10,700 feet 



Nusta Hispafia, Peru {type of 



Proctoporus obesus). 



Nusta Hispafia, Peru 



Ollantavtambo, Peru, 9,400 feet. May 15, 1915 



OUantavtambo, Peru July 20, 1911 



Ollantaytambo, Peru, 9,400 feet. July 14, 1915 

 Tincochchaca, Peru {Type and ' Aug. 8, 1911 



paratype of Oreosmirus lacer- '. 



his) . ! 



Collector 



E. Heller. 

 E. C. Erdis. 



Do. 

 O. F. Cook. 

 E. Heller. 



Do. 

 Yale-Peruvian 

 Expendition. 



PROCTOPORUS STRIATUS (Peters) 



1862. Ecpleopus (Oreosaurus) striatus Petees, Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 p. 201, pi. 3, fig. 2 (type locality, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia). 



1885. Oreosaurus fttriatn.^ Boulicngee, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 411. 



1885. Procioporws striatus Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 23, p. 98. 



1919. Proctoporus hogotensis Boulengeb, Proc. Zonl. Soc. London, p. 80 (type 

 locality, Bogota, Colombia). 



A single topofi/pe of this species, U.S.N. M. No. 76969, collected at 

 Bogota, Colombia, by Niceforo Maria, shows the following charac- 

 ters : 35 or 36 scales from the occiput to the base of the tail ; 33 scales 

 around the middle of the body ; 8 to 10 rows of ventral plates, if 10 

 are counted, the outer reduced in size; 23 transverse series of ventral 

 plates; a femoral pore on each side; 4 supraoculars; 9 or 10 trans- 

 verse series of gular plates, including the collar; dorsal scales 

 strongly striated ; body brownish above. 



Genus TEIUS Merrem 



TEIUS TEYOU TEYOU (Daudin) 



1803. Lacerta feyou Daudin, Hist. Nat. Reptiles, vol. 3. p. 195 (type locality, 



Paraguay). 

 1885. Teius teyou Botjlknges, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 379. 



South Atnerica. — Two specimens, Nos. 11712 and 15333. 



Argentina. — Two specimens, Nos. 22754r-55, from Corrientes. 



Umguay. — Seven specimens, Nos. 70482-84 and 73533 from Uru- 

 guay, No. 73534 from Montevideo, No. 65559 from Carrasco, Monte- 

 video, and No. 70485 from Paysandu, all collected by F. Felippone. 



