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The original description of Ameiva chrysolaema boekeri Mertens 

 agrees completely with the characters of taeniura — 10 longitudinal 

 rows of enlarged ventrals, upper caudal scales keeled, first supraocular 

 separated from loreal and third supraocular partially separated from 

 frontoparietal by granules, as well as in coloration. 



Specimens examined. — As listed in table 50. 



AMEIVA CHRYSOLAEMA CHRYSOLAEMA Cope 



Figures 72, 76, 77; Plate 8, B-E. 



1839. Ameiva plei Dumeril and Bibron, Erpetologie generate, vol. 5, p. 5, p. 114 

 (part) (cotypes from Porto Rico [Martinique!] collected by M. P16e; 1 cotype 

 from Sainte-Domingue; collector, M. Alexandre Ricord). 



1863. Ameiva pleei Reinhardt and Lutken, Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. (Copen- 

 hagen), 1862, pp. 239, 244; extr. pp. 87, 92 (San Domingo). 



1869. Ameiva chrysolaema Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 20, p. 

 127 (type locality [said to be Gonave Island], within 25 miles of Port-au- 

 Prince, Haiti; collector, A. C. Younglove; cotypes, U.S.N. M. Nos. 12140, 

 12142). — Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Am6rique 

 Centrale, Recherches zoologiques, Reptiles, pt. 3, pi. 20B, figs. 5, 5a-d; texte, 

 pp. 252, 253, 1874.— Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in 

 the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 355, 1885; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1890, p. 79 (Hayti; Brit. Mus.). — Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg 

 Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, p. 24, 1888.— Muller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, 

 pt. 1, p. 212, 1892. — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, 

 p. 309, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 9, No. 4, p. 103, 1930. — Barbour and Noble, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, No. 6, p. 432, 1915.— Schmidt, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 16, 1921.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 10, 1924; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, 

 p. 54, 1928. — Ameiva chrysolaema chrysolaema Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 181, 1934.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, 

 p. 126, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 143, 1937.— Mer- 

 tens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, p. 338, 1938; Publ. Inst. Cient. 

 Domfnico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 88, 1939. — Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico- 

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



1871. Amiva vittipunctata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 22, p. 

 220 (type locality said to be near City of Santo Domingo; type in Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, No. 12140). 



1885. Ameiva vittipunctata Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in 

 the collection of the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 355. — Meerwarth, Mitth. 

 Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 34, 1901.— Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 17, 1921. — Mertens, Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico- 

 Aleinan, vol. 1, p. 92, 1939. — Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Dominico-Aleman, 

 vol. 1, p. 18, 1939. 



The type of Amiva vittipunctata Cope is now in the museum of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, bearing the number 

 12140. The type of Ameiva chrysolaema Cope is in the United States 

 National Museum with the same number 12140. The two specimens 

 are identical as to the occipital plates and most other characters, and 

 it is extremely probable that they are both from the same shipment 

 from the same source and that they were both National Museum 



