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by a row of granules; two frontoparietals, followed by a transverse 

 row of five subeqnal occipitals; these in turn being followed by three 

 rows of irregular post-occipitals ; ear-opening large; five upper labials 

 to a point directly beneath the center of the eye, the third and fourth 

 the longest; the keeled subocular nearly reaching to the lip between the 

 fifth and sixth supralabials ; first infralabial very minute; sixth 

 infralabial under center of eye; the wedge of granular scales on the 

 chin extending to the posterior border of the first pair of chin shields, 



Figure 82. — Ameiva rosamondae: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin and throat; d, dorsal 

 granules. M.C.Z. No. 37567, type, from Saona Island, Dominican Republic. Twice 

 natural size. 



which are nearly completely in contact; chin and throat covered with 

 granular scales, with a patch of enlarged scales in the middle ; mesopty- 

 chium covered with two rows of rather regular, enlarged scales bordered 

 by one or two smaller rows. Dorsal scales granular, uniform, 37 

 in the standard distance (from tip of snout to center of eye) ; laterals 

 similar but smaller. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal series 

 bounded by two very small external series, and in 35 transverse series; 

 brachials and antebrachials well separated; six wide straplike scales 

 across the forearm ; post-brachials present as a group of three or four 

 larger and several smaller scales at the elbow, all the post-brachials 

 considerably larger than the dorsal granules; femoral pores 18; anterior 



