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but no bars. The tail was light yellowish-brown, lighter than the 

 body and with extremely faint, narrow cross-lines. The side of the 

 body was a greenish hue with scattered spots of a bright metallic 

 green covering individual scales. The throat was a bronzy, dark 

 brownish black with small white spots, often running together. 

 Toward the chin the throat became less bronzy. The belly was 

 yellowish with sometimes a slightly green tint. In young specimens 

 the tail was more orange. No marked sexual dichromatism was 

 noticed in the field. 



"Habitat. — This species was common on the island of Alta Vela, 

 Uving among the rocks, leaves and grass along the coast and ranging 

 to the top of the higher ridge in the center of the island." 



A male para type, A.M.N.H. No. 51069, has a ground color of 

 dark gray over lower side of head, neck, and chest; white spots 

 arranged in one or two irregular transverse bars on chin; throat 

 imspotted; chest with white spots arranged in a wide V-shape. There 

 are seven supraoculars on right side of head; inner pair of parietals 

 about two-thirds the width of outer pair; five upper and four and 

 one-half lower labials to below center of eye; 54 scales around body 

 at middle, and about 61 a little anterior to this point; 63 dorsal scales 

 from occiput to above vent; 16 dorsal scales in distance from snout 

 to occiput. Head and body, 47 mm.; head length, 15.5 mm.; head 

 width, 12 mm.; foreleg, 24 mm.; liindleg, 43 mm.; tail (regenerated), 

 70 mm. 



LEIOCEPHALUS PERSONATUS AUREUS Cochran 



Figures 64, 65e; Plate 2, B 



1934. Leiocephalus personatus aureus Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 8, p. 175. — Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 120, 1935; BuU. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 136, 1937. 



Original description. — ''Diagnosis. — Anterior part of snout much 

 swollen (in adult male) , appearing highly convex when seen in profile ; 

 no lateral fold; three scales between rostral and supraocular ring; 

 frontals and prefrontals smooth; frontals separated from canthals by 

 a wedge-shaped scale ; throat with a series of about four regular trans- 

 verse rows of spots running across it, the posterior ones continued as 

 stripes onto the labials and nearly to the upper part of the head; 

 under surfaces of legs and taQ gamboge yellow. 



"Type. — An adult male, U.S.N.M. 75909, from Jacmel, Haiti, col- 

 lected by J. S. C. Boswell m 1928. 



"Description of the <?/2?e.— Headshields enlarged, the posterior dis- 

 tinctly ridged, the anterior smooth; anterior part of snout much 

 swollen (in adult male), appearing highly convex when viewed in 

 profile; three scales (an internasal and 2 prefrontals) between the 

 rostral and the supraorbital ring; posterior prefrontals much the larger; 

 nasals in contact with rostral; internasals in contact with each other 



