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 Tablk 53. — Specimens of Ameiva chrysolaema affinis examined 



AMEIVA BARBOURI Cochran 



Figures 72, 81 



1928. Ameiva barbouri Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 56. — 

 Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 211, 

 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 103, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, 

 p. 127, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 144, 1937. 



Original description. — "Type. — Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 25537 (col- 

 lector's no, 288, lot 53) adult from La Source, Gonave Island, collected 

 on August 7, 1927, by Walter J. Eyerdam. 



''Description of the type. — Profile of head flat on top, not curved 

 except at the very 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 longer than wide, [broadly angulate 

 in front,] in contact with the large loreal; prefrontals broadly in 

 contact ; frontal in contact with three supraoculars on each side ; three 

 large supraoculars, the anterior one not touching the loreal ; behind the 

 third supraocular three small scales occupying the position of a fourth 

 supraocular; fronto-parietals in close contact with the third supra- 

 ocular; seven superciliaries on the right and six on the left, the two 

 anterior ones on each side in contact with the first supraocular, the 

 remaining superciliaries separated from the posterior supraocular by a 

 row of granules; two fronto-parietals, followed by a transverse row of 

 five subequal occipitals, these in tm-n being followed by about three 

 rows of irregular post-occipitals ; ear-opening large; five upper labials 

 to a point directly beneath the center of the eye, the third and fourth 

 the longest; six lower labials to the same point, the third the longest; 

 the wedge of granular scales on the chin extending to the first pair of 

 chin shields, which are partially in contact; chin and tliroat covered 

 with granular scales, a distinct wide band of enlarged scales across 

 the middle; mesoptychium covered with one or two irregular rows of 

 enlarged scales, bordered by two or three successively smaller rows. 

 Dorsal scales granular, uniform, 34 in the standard distance (from tip 



