NO. 3545 LIZARDS — PETERS 31 



Prionodactylus manicatus (O'Shaughnessy) 



Cercosaura {Prionodactylus) manicata O'Shaughnessy, 1881, Proc, Zool. 



Soc. London, p. 231, pi. 22, fig. 3. Ganelos and Pallatanga, Ecuador 



(BM 1946.8.2.1). 

 Range: Amazonian Ecuador. 



Prionodactylus ocellifer Werner 



Prionodactylus ocellifer Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 



vol. 51, p. 596. Ecuador (BerM 16593). 

 Range : Known only from type, which lacks specific data. 



Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi Boulenger 



Cercosaura (Pantodaciylus) argulus. — O'Shaughnessy, 1881, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. London, p. 229. 

 Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi Boulenger, 1885, Cat. Lizards British Mus., 



vol. 2, p. 392, pi. 21, fig. 1. Ganelos and Pallatanga, Ecuador 



(BM 1946.8.31.18-20). 

 Range : Amazonian Ecuador. 



Prionodactylus vertebralis (O'Shaughnessy) 



Cercosaura {Pantodactylus) vertebralis O'Shaughnessy, 1879, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 4, p. 298. Intac, Ecuador (BM 1946.8.31.35). 

 Range: Higher Pacific slopes of Ecuador; also reported from Zamora, 



Ecuador, by Parker, 1934, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 14, 



p. 270. Darien, Panama. 



Genus PROCTOPORUS Tschudi 



1. Pores present in pre-anal area; at least one supraocular in contact with upper 



palpebrals; adpressed limbs do not touch 2 



No pores in pre-anal area; superciliary series usually complete except in 

 columbianus; adpressed limbs usually meet 3 



2. Supraoculars four; two, three, and four usually in contact with upper palpebrals; 



no sexual dimorphism in femoral pore number meleagris 



Supraoculars three; usually only two in contact with palpebrals; sexual di- 

 morphism in femoral pore number iinicolor 



3. Fewer than 50 scales from occiput to base of tail 4 



More than 50 scales from occiput to base of tail; disc in lower eyelid not divided 



by vertical gi-ooves into two or three sections pachyurus* 



4. Superciliary series incomplete, second or second and third supraoculars in 



contact with upper palpebrals; adpressed limbs separated or barely touching. 



columbianus 



Superciliary series usually complete (occasionally not in striatus); limbs usually 



broadly overlapping when adpressed 5 



