304 BULLETIN 17 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



"Detailed Description. — Type: A. M.N.H. No. 42145, female. 

 Collected at Monte Cristy, D. R., January 8, 1930, by W. G. Hassler. 



"Snout short; a small postnasal present; anterior loreal making a 

 narrow contact with the first labial; supranasal in contact behind the 

 rostral; frontonasal broader than long, making contact with the 

 anterior angle of the frontal; prefrontals barely separated by the 

 frontonasal; frontal about one-fifth longer than the frontoparietals; 

 about the same length as a parietal, in contact with the second supra- 

 ocular only; four supraoculars, second one-half again as large as any 

 of the others ; four superciliaries, second as long as the third and fourth 

 combined; a pair of frontoparietals, about the same length as an 

 interparietal; parietals in contact behind the latter; one pair of 

 nuchals; four supralabials anterior to the suboculars; one or two sub- 

 oculars followed by a supralabial which is larger than the anterior 

 supralabials and slightly higher than the suboculars. Ear opening 



Figure 86. — Mabuya lineolata: a, Top of head; b, profile of head; c, chin. 



No. 51766, paratype, from Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. Twice natural size. 



ovoid, a trifle smaller than the diameter of the transparent plate in 

 the lower eyelid, its greatest diameter about equal to length of the 

 scales covering the side of the body. Dorsal scales smooth; 26 scales 

 around the middle of the body, laterals a little smaller than the others. 

 When the legs are pressed against the body the hind leg fails to meet 

 the anterior leg by a distance greater than the total length of the hind 

 limb; subdigital lamellae smooth; tail regenerated, nevertheless 

 slightly longer than the head and body length. 



"Dorsal surface of the head, body and tail (in alcohol) striped, a 

 ground tone of gray divided on the dorsal surface by ten conspicuous 

 stripes of dark brown, the two most ventral stripes on each side about 

 half the width of the two stripes immediately dorsal to them on either 

 side; the latter extending from the region of the eyes the whole length 

 of the body and well on to the tail; the dark stripes not co-equal in 

 width to a scale but extending through the middle or the lateral por- 

 tion of each scale. Ventral surface a uniform grayish tint except on 

 the tail where the two most ventral stripes on the side of the body 

 have converged to form two barely defined stripes on either side of the 

 midline of the tail. 



