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slender; the small combs very evident on the toes; fourth toe with 

 42 lamellae beneath it; fifth toe slightly longer than first. Tail 

 (reproduced) nearly twice the length of head and body, rather de- 

 pressed in its proximal portion, the scales straight, keeled above and 

 on the sides, smooth below proximally. 



Dimensions: Head and body, 125 mm.; tail (reproduced), 233 mm. 



Color (in alcohol) : Ground color pea green to dull china blue above, 

 with a wide black dorsolateral band invaded by spots of the ground 

 color, which tend to form vertical bars by running together, making a 

 rather prominent series of irregular vertical stripes when this pattern 

 is fully carried out ; four dark dorsal stripes, much narrower than the 

 lateral stripes, the inner pair quite indistinct anteriorly, the outer 

 pair with a row of light spots appearing posteriorly; upper surface of 

 tail china blue w^ith rather regular black spots ; lower lips immaculate 

 pale china blue; sides of head, chin and ventral surfaces French gray, 

 suffused with olive buff on the belly, legs and tail. A few light tur- 

 quoise blue spots on the anterior forearm and tibia, as well as on the 

 edges of the ventral plates; posterior thigh and upper part of tibia 

 with a dark reticulation. 



Paratypes. — There are 34 paratypes of all ages, M.C.Z. Nos. 

 37584-37592 and U.S.N.M. Nos. 95127-95132, taken on April 2-3, 

 1934, at the same place as the type. In addition, a rather mutilated 

 specimen taken by Dr. W. L. Abbott on Isle Tortue on January 31, 

 1917, represents this subspecies, although its pattern is not fuUy 

 developed, while the outer ventral row is composed of scales larger 

 than those of most of the paratypes taken by the Utowana party. 



Relationships. — The color pattern of more or less vertical bars on the 

 black dorsolateral band distinguishes the new species both from c. 

 abbotti, an entirely spotted form, and from c. chrysolaema, in which the 

 spots have not taken so regular an arrangement across the dark stripes. 

 It appears to be very close to c. chrysolaema, however, in most other 

 characteristics. 



AMEIVA CHRYSOLAEMA ABBOTTI Noble 



Figures 72, 79 



1923. Ameiva abbotii Noble, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 64, p. 1. — Barbour, Zoologica, 



vol. 11, No. 4, p. 103, 1930. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 210, 1929. 

 1934. Ameiva chrysolaema abbotti Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 



8, p. 181.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 126, 1935; Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 144, 1937. 



It is very evident in studying typical Ameiva chrysolaema chryso- 

 laema that the form is in process of breaking up. A series of specimens 

 from one locality will all have a fairly similar pattern, which may differ 

 in some slight detail from that of a series of lizards from another 

 locality, but intergrading forms are always to be found on the His- 



