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of specimens. However, in most "of them there is a tendency to a 

 slight enlargement of the median granules and in quite a few there 

 is a well-pronounced median patch, as shown, for instance, in No. 

 27370 (fig. 76). This feature in several of our specimens, coupled 

 with the difference in the relation of the first pair of chin-shields as 

 shown in figures 73 and 76, and certain color differences which I 



Figs. 71-75.— Ameiva AUBEEi. 2Xnat. size. No. 26765, U.S.N.M. Santiago de Cuba.— 76 theoat 



OF ANOTHEB SPECIMEN, 1§ X NAT. SIZE. NO. 27370; EL GUAMA, PINAR DEL RiO. 



noted, at one time induced me to believe that there might be two 

 species of Ameiva in Cuba. Upon closer examination, however, it 

 appears that no line can be drawn and that we have to do with a 

 considerable degree of individual variation only. 



Specimens collected by myself at Santiago de Cuba, Apiil 23, 1900, 

 were much more brilliantly colored than Cocteau's plate 6.* A 

 male (No. 26765 U.S.N.M., collector's No. 9075) had top of head and 

 a broad stripe on each side of the middle of the back tawny olive, 

 the limbs above of the same color with blackish-brown marbMngs; 

 from the interparietal to the base of the tail on the median fine of 

 the back a strongly defined whitish line wliich is shghtly washed "vsith 

 greenish anteriorly and bluish on the sacrum, where it is gradually 



» Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, vol. 4. 



