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superciliaries separated from the other supraoculars by two rows of 

 granules; two frontoparietals followed by a transverse row of five 

 occipitals, the median one much smaller than the two adjoining it, 

 these in turn followed by about three rows of very unequal post- 

 occipitals; ear opening large; the sixth (last) supralabial below the 

 center of the eye, the third and fourth the longest; sixth lower labial 

 also directly below the eye, the third and fourth the longest; the wedge 

 of granular scales on the chin scarcely entering between the first 

 pair of chin shields, which are in contact for three-fourths of their 

 length; chin and throat covered with granular scales, only slightly 

 enlarged on the central gular region; mesoptychium covered with one 

 or two irregular rows of enlarged scales, bordered by some successively 



Figure 78. — Ameiva chrysolaema woodi: a, Top of head; h, side of head; c, chin and throat. 

 M.C.Z. No. 37583, from He Tortue, Haiti. Natural size. 



smaller ones. Dorsal scales granular, uniform, about 60 in the stand- 

 ard distance from tip of snout to center of eye; laterals similar but 

 smaller. Ventral plates in 10 longitudinal series bounded by two 

 exceedingly small external ones, and in 38 transverse series; brachial 

 scales conspicuously enlarged, in three or four fairly regular rows, 

 the longest of these rows having about a dozen scales, each about as 

 wide as long; three or four conspicuously widened postbrachial 

 scales surrounded by smaller scales soon merging with the surrounding 

 granules; antebrachials in about three rows of enlarged scales, the 

 median the widest, having four or five large straplike scales across 

 the wrist; brachials and antebrachials separated by numerous small 

 scales; femoral pores 21 (left) and 22 (right); anterior face of thigh 

 covered with eight or nine rows of enlarged flat scales; four tibial 

 rows, the external row composed of six scales of which the second and 

 third (proximal) are much larger than the others; no enlarged post- 

 anals; four enlarged plates at the anterior border of the anus, the 

 median pair the largest, with a single large scale in front of these and 

 a smaller single scale preceding it; 40 scales in the fifteenth verticil 

 of the tail. The hind leg being adpressed, the fourth toe reaches to 

 the posterior edge of the tympanum. Hands and feet long and 



