THE HERPETOLOGY OF 

 Table 52. — Specimens of Ameiva chrysolaema 



HISPANIOLA 283 



chrysolaema examined — Continued 



AMEIVA CHRYSOLAEMA WOODI Cochran 



Figures 72, 78 



1934. Ameiva chrysolaema woodi Cochean, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 8, p. 181. 

 1937. Ameiva chrysolaema juliae Cochran, in Barbour, BuU. Mus. Comp. Zool, 



vol. 82, No. 2, p. 144 (in synonymy). 



Diagnosis. — Scalation similar to that of Ameiva chrysolaema chry- 

 solaema, but with usually 10 subequal longitudinal ventral rows and 

 with a row of small scales as the only traces of the two additional 

 rows, which are well developed in the typical form; a wide black 

 dorsolateral band invaded by spots of the ground color, these spots 

 tending to form vertical bars by running together, making a rather 

 prominent series of irregular vertical bands when this pattern is 

 fully carried out. 



Tijpe.— An adult male, M.C.Z. No. 37583, from lie Tortue, Haiti, 

 collected on April 3, 1934, by the Utowana Expedition. 



Description of the type. — Profile of head flat on top, curved at the 

 end of the snout; nostril anterior to the nasal suture; rostral forming 

 a right angle behind; anterior nasals broadly in contact behind the 

 rostral ; frontonasal as wide as long, narrowly in contact with the large 

 loreal, very broadly angulate in front; prefrontals broadly in contact; 

 frontal in contact with the two anterior preoculars; three large 

 preoculars, the anterior one not touching the loreal, the third partly 

 separated from the frontoparietal by granules; seven superciliaries, 

 the first two in contact with the first supraocular, the remaining 



