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of snout to center of eye); laterals similar but smaller. Ventral 

 plates in eight longitudinal series bounded by two very small external 

 series, and in thirty-five transverse series ; brachials and ante-brachials 

 well separated, four wide strap-like scales across the fore-arm; post- 

 brachials present as about four pairs of somewhat enlarged scales at 

 the elbow, only slightly larger than the granular scales on the back; 

 femoral pores 16 and 18; anterior face of thigh covered with six or 

 seven rows of flat scales; two tibial rows, the external row composed of 

 four scales, of which the second and third are much larger than the 



Figure 81. — Ameiva barbouri: a, Top of head; b, chin and throat; c, side of head. M.C.Z. 

 No. 25537, type, from La Source, Gonave Island, Haiti. Twice natural size. 



others ; no enlarged postanals ; a pair of enlarged plates at the anterior 

 border of the anus and two smgle median scales in front of them, the 

 anterior the smaller; twenty-two scales in the fifteenth verticil of 

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

 anterior edge of the tympanum. Hands and feet long and slender; the 

 small "combs" very evident on the toes; fourth toe with thirty-seven 

 lamellae beneath it, fifth toe longer than first. Tail exceedingly long, 

 almost three times the length of the head and body together, and 

 somewhat noticeably depressed in its proximal third; the scales 

 obliquely set, very weakly keeled above, quite smooth on the side and 

 bottom. 



