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AMEIVA CHRYSOLAEMA AFFimS (Fischer) 



Figures 72, 80 



1883. Cnemidophorus affinis Fischer, Besclireibungen neuer Reptilien, Separat- 

 Abdruck aus dem Osterprogramm des akademischen Gymnasiums, Hamburg, 

 p. 1 (type locality, Haiti; collector, Dr. J. G. Fischer; type, Mus. Hamburg 

 No. 790). 



1914. Ameiva vittipunctata Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, 

 p. 310 (not of Cope); Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 102, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, 

 p. 126, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 143, 1937.— Barbour 

 and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, No. 6, p. 436, 1915. — Schmidt, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 17, 1921. — Mertens, Sencken- 

 bergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, p. 341, 1938. 



1888? Ameiva regularis Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg, vol. 5, p. 26 (type 

 locality, Sanssouci, Hayti). 



Description.— U.S. NM. No. 67111 (formerly M.C.Z. No. 8642), an 

 adult collected at Momance, Haiti, by Dr. W. M. Maim in 1913. 

 Profile of head slightly convex on top, more curved toward the end of 

 the snout; nostril anterior to the nasal suture; rostral forming an 

 acute angle behind; anterior nasals narrowly in contact behind the 

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

 loreal, truncate in front; prefrontals broadly in contact, frontal in 

 contact with the two anterior preoculars; three large preoculars, with 

 a fourth one equal to about one-quarter of the area of the third; the 

 anterior preocular not touching the loreal, the third and fourth com- 

 pletely separated from the frontoparietals by a row of granules; nine 

 superciliaries on the left, eight on the right side of the head, the 

 second (normally) the longest, the two anterior ones (normally) in 

 contact with the first supraocular, the remaining superciliaries sep- 

 arated from the other supraoculars by two rows of granules; two 

 frontoparietals, followed by a row of five occipitals, of which the cen- 

 tral one is the largest; these in turn followed by four or five irregular 

 rows of rather small and unequal postoccipitals ; ear opening large; 

 five upper and five lower labials to a point directly beneath the center 

 of the eye, the third of each series the longest; the wedge of granular 

 scales on the chin extending to about halfway between the first pair 

 of chin shields, which are anteriorly in contact; chin and throat cov- 

 ered with granular scales, those of the central gular region very 

 slightly enlarged and merging gradually into the smaller ones; mesop- 

 tychium covered with two irregular rows of slightly enlarged scales, 

 bordered by one or two successively smaller ones. Dorsal scales gran- 

 ular, uniform, about 71 in the standard distance from tip of snout to 

 center of eye; laterals similar but smaller. Ventral plates in 12 lon- 

 gitudinal series boimded by two very small external series, and in 38 

 transverse series; brachial scales very slightly enlarged, merging into 

 the surrounding granules; antebrachial scales conspicuously enlarged, 

 in one very wide series of four straplike scales bordered by two or three 



