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narrowest of the black stripes. There are consequently 7 black and 

 6 white stripes on the head, 8 black and 7 white on the neck, 9 black 

 and 8 white behind the arm insertion and 10 black and 9 white in 

 front of the hindleg (not counting the white flanks). Arms with 

 three distinct black stripes on upper surface; legs with black vermi- 

 culations on upper surface; the posterior aspect of the femur with a 

 pair of narrow black lines separated by the pale blue body color. On 

 the base of the tail the black stripes narrow and rapidly lose their 

 distinctness. Throat, chin, infralabials, and lower borders of suprala- 

 bials immaculate olive-buff. 



Relationships. — As Dr. Noble himself pointed out in the original 

 description, the Beata Island lizard is closely related to the typical 

 lineolata found on the mainland of Haiti. He notes that there are 

 fewer stripes and that some of these are continued to the tip of the 

 snout in the island form, and that adult specimens are larger than 

 adults of lineolata. He likens it to wetmorei of Puerto Rico in its 

 reduction of the number of stripes and the continuation of the pattern 

 to the end of the snout. 



I believe that the relationships are truly expressed by placing the 

 Beata form as a subspecies of typical lineolata, since these two 

 resemble each other much more closely than either resembles wetmorei. 



AMEIVA TAENIURA Cope 



Figures 72, 75 



1862. Ameiva taeniura Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 14, p. 63 

 (type locality, near Jer^mie, Hayti; collector, D. F. Weinland; 3 cotypes 

 in Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 1503 [now 3614]). — Boulenger, Catalogue of the 

 specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, 

 p. 350, 1885; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890, p. 78 (Hayti; Brit. Mus.).— 

 Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 11, 1887 (Jer6mie, Hayti; Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. specimens). — Muller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 212, 

 1892 (specimen from Miragoane, Hayti; Basel Mus.). — Meerwarth, 

 Mitth. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 29, 1901. — Barbour, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 310, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 102, 

 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 126, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 

 143, 1937.— Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 17, 

 1921.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 10, 1924; Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928; Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 8, p. 183, 1934. Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 214, 1929— Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico- 

 Aleman, vol. 1, p. 18, 1939. 



1915. Ameiva lineolata Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, 

 No. 6, p. 433 (part) (not of Dume'ril and Bibron). 



1938. Ameiva chrysolaema boekeri Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, p. 338, 

 fig. 6; Publ. Inst. Cient. Dominico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 90, 1939. 



1939. Ameiva chrysolaema bokeri Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Dominico-Alernan, 

 vol. 1, p. 18, 1939. 



