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<P. Caudal scales straight; wide dark dorsolateral stripe in- 

 vaded by lighter spots which tend to form vertical bars 



(Tortue Island) chrysolaema woodi (p. 283) 



c^. Ventrals in 8 subequal longitudinal rows, bounded by 2 very 

 small external series; third supraocular fully in contact 

 with frontoparietal, 

 d'. Dorsolateral black band relatively narrow; no light lines 

 or spots; 37 lamellae under fourth toe; 22 scales in fif- 

 teenth verticil of tail (Gonave Island) barbouri (p. 292) 



d^. Dorsolateral black band relatively wide, edged below by 

 a narrow light line; 40 lamellae under fourth toe; 25 



scales in fifteenth verticil (Saona Island) rosamondae (p. 295) 



a^. Twelve longitudinal rows of subequal ventral plates. 



fei. Enlarged brachials usually wider than long; postbrachials 

 rather conspicuously enlarged; numerous rows of spots dis- 

 tributed uniformly over sides and back; interparietal smaller 

 than adjacent scales. 

 cK Pattern usually of spots and stripes., chrysolaema chrysolaeraa (p. 275) 

 c^. Pattern entirely of spots (Beata Island) -.chrysolaema abbotti (p. 285) 

 b^. Brachials, if enlarged at all, not wider than long; postbrachials 

 usually not very conspicuously enlarged; a black lateral band 

 not or scarcely invaded by white spots; interparietal larger 

 than adjoimng scales chrysolaema affinis (p. 289) 



In order to express the greater or less degree of difference between 

 the Hispaniolan Ameivas, it seems best to recognize taeniura, rosa- 

 mondae, and barbouri as full and distinct species, to make beatensis a 

 subspecies of lineolata, and abbottii, affinis, and woodi subspecies of 

 chrysolaema. 



AMEIVA LINEOLATA LINEOLATA Dumeril and Bibron 



Figures 72, 73 



1839. Ameiva lineolata Dumeril and Bibron, Erpetologie generale, vol. 5, p. 

 119 (type locality, Saint-Domingue; collector. Dr. Bally; type in Brit. Mus.). 

 — Gray, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British 

 Museum, p. 20, 1845. — Dum^ril, Catalogue methodique de la collection des 

 reptiles (Paris Museum), p. 116, 1851. — Bocourt, Mission scientifique au 

 Mexique et dans I'Amerique Centrale, Recherches zoologiques. Reptiles, pi. 

 20A, fig. 5-5D (figures of the type specimen), text, p. 253, 1874. — Boulen- 

 GER, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British 

 Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 349, 1885. — Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 

 11, 1887 (Hayti and San Domingo). — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 

 vol. 44, No. 2, p. 311, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 103, 1930; vol. 19, 

 No. 3, p. 126, 1935. — Barbour and Noble, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 44, art. 2, p. 17, 1921. — Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, p. 341, 

 1938; Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico-Alemdn, vol. 1, p. 94, 1939.— Boker, 

 Publ. Inst. Cient. Dominico-Alemdn, vol. 1, p. 18, 1939. 



This beautiful lizard belongs to one of the dwarf species of the genus. 

 Its longitudinal black-and-white striping is paralleled in a most in- 

 teresting way by the wholly unrelated iguanid lizard Hispaniolus 

 pratensis. Where most of the larger Ameivas can travel and dis- 

 perse themselves over a relatively large territory, this small lizard 



