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side of wrist with regular series of transverse plates corresponding in 

 position to the metacarpals; 35 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; 

 tail covered with smooth, diagonal scales set in regular transverse 

 rows, about 16 scales in the fifteenth verticil from the base. 



Dimensions: Head and body, 55 mm.; head to posterior ear, 

 20 mm.; tail (reproduced), about 105 mm.; foreleg, 19 mm.; hindleg 

 mutilated; axilla to groin, 28 mm. 



Color (in alcohol): Body color above pale gray to china blue, 

 immaculate pale blue below; tail and legs pale blue; a series of longi- 

 tudinal black dorsal and lateral stripes running from the tip of the 

 snout, dividing on the body and continuing on to the tail, these 



Figure 74. — Ameiva lineolata beatensis: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin and throat; 

 d, dorsal granules. U.S.N. M. No. 83882, from Beata Island, Dominican Republic. Twice 

 natural size. 



stripes gradually increasing in width on the body from the dorsal 

 region where they are narrow to the lateral region where they are 

 twice as wide; those continuing onto the head widen considerably 

 on the temporal and supraocular regions; loreal region with a black 

 stripe, which is the anterior continuation of one of the lateral stripes; 

 another stripe begins on the rostral as a pale gray stripe passing 

 along the upper borders of the supralabials, darkening above the 

 corner of the mouth, passing through the ear and continuing along 

 the side and on to the tail; the black stripes passing through the 

 supraocular plates and joining on the frontonasal do not divide on 

 the body; the dorsal stripes originate as a single black stripe ending 

 on the frontal, but forking once on the neck, and allowing the interpo- 

 lation of another black stripe just behind the scapular region; this 

 interpolated stripe forks at the middle of the back, forming the 



