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2. A high dorsal crest and a high caudal crest, both crests with the upper edges 

 serrate but not scalloped, both covered with thin, somewhat enlarged scales. 



basiliscus 



No high dorsal crest but a serrate series of compressed trihedral tubercles, 



touching or separated by smaller scales; a low, serrate ridge on tail, galeritus 



Basiliscus basiliscus (Linnaeus) 



Lacerta basiliscus L,\.nnQ.t\x'&, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., vol. 1, p. 206. 



"America australi" (type unknown). 

 Range: Northwestern Ecuador and Colombia; southern Central 



America. 



Basiliscus galeritus A. Dumeril 



Basiliscus galeritus A. Dumeril, 1851, Cat. Meth. Coll. Reptiles, p. 61. 



"N.-Grenade," which is Colombia (PM 2130-31). 

 Ptenosaura seemani Gray, 1852, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, 



p. 438. "Quibo, on West coast of America" (BM). 

 Range : Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador to Panama and Costa 



Rica. 



Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann 



Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann, 1828, Isis von Oken, vol. 21, p. 373. 



Mexico, restricted by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus., no. 199, p. 72, to Veracruz, Veracruz (BerM 549-551). 

 Range: Mexico through Central America on both coasts as far as 



Colombia. Recorded from Ecuador by Boulenger, 1885, Cat. 



Lizards British Mus., vol. 2, p. 109. 



Genus CALLOPISTES Gravenhorst 



Callopistes flavipunctatus (Dumeril and Bibron) 



Aporomera flavipunctata Dumeril and Bibron, 1839, Erp. Gen., vol. 5, 



p. 72. South America (PM 8298, 2 specimens). 

 Range : Inter-Andean valleys of Peru and southern Ecuador. 



Genus DICRODON Dumeril and Bibron 

 Dicrodon guttulatum Dumeril and Bibron 



Dicrodon guttulatU7n Dumeril and Bibron, 1839, Erp. Gen., vol. 5, p. 



138. Peru (PM 1116). 

 Cnemidophorus lentiginosus Garman, 1892b, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 24, p. 



92. San Francisco de Posorja, Ecuador (MGZ 10775-76). 

 Ameiva leucostigma Boulenger, 1899a, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 517. 



Guayaquil, Ecuador (BM 1946.8.8.69-70). 

 Range : Dry coastal Ecuador, north to southern limits of Esmeraldas 



Prov. ; coastal Peru. 



