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Ilah'itat and /lahifs. — Xotliing- is known ('oncornin«2: the hiil)itiit 

 and habits of these lizards. 



A-ffinitlcs. — The black race runner is apparently a modified form 

 of hmniscatus^ to which it is most closely allied. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS OCELLIFER (Spix) 

 BRAZILIAN RACE RUNNER 



1825. Tejus occllifer Spix," Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras., p. 23, pi. 25 (tjpe locality, 

 "Bahia," Brazil).— Boie, in Oken, Isis, 1826, p. 119.— Wagler, Nat. Syst. 

 Amph., 1830, p. 154.— Schinz, Naturg. u. Abbild. Reptilien, 1833, p. 97.— 

 Peters, Monatsb. Berlin Akad. AVissenscb., 1877, p. 412. 



1831. Tcj/us oceUifcr Cu^^:ER, Animal Kingdom, p. 22. — Griffith, Cuvier's 

 Animal Kingdom, Class Reptilia, 1831, p. 114. — Gray, Synops. Reptilia, appx. 

 to Griffith's Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 1831, p. 29. 



1861. Cnemidoj)lioi-us lacertoides var. Eeinhardt and Lutken, Vidensk. Meddel. 

 nat. Foren., p. 146. 



1861. CnemidopJwrus liygomi Reinhabdt and Lutken, Vidensk. Meddel. nat. 

 Foren., p. 231 (type locality, " Marium," Brazil). — Bocoxjkt, Miss. sci. Mex. 

 et Amer. cent., vol. 3, 1874, pp. 269, 273, pi. 20c, figs. 12, 12a-&.— MtJLLER, 

 Verbandl, Naturf. ges. Basel, vol. 7, 1885, p. 292. 



1877. Cnemidopliorus oceUifcr Peters, Monatsber. Berlin Akad. Wissenscb., 

 p. 414.— Boulenger, Cat. Liz. British Mus., vol. 2, 1885, p. 372; Cat. Liz. 

 British Mus., vol. 2, 1887, p. 506.— Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 24, 

 1887, p. 56.— Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, 1890, p. 644.— Cope, 

 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 17, 1892, p. 50. — Boettgeb, Kat. der Rept. 

 Samml. im Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges. in Frankfurt, teil 1, 1893, 

 p. 75. — Peracca, Boll. ]Mus. Torino, vol. 10, no. 195, 1895, p. 6. — Koslowsky. 

 Revista Mus. La Plata, vol. 8, p. 185.— Cope, Ann. Rpt. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 

 1898, 1900, p. 569.— Goeldi, BoI. :\Ius. Paraense, vol. 3, nos. 3, 4, 1902, pp. 537, 

 546. — Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, p. 301. — Bertoni. Fauna Para- 

 guaya, 1913, p. 25. — Griffin, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, 1917, p. 313. — 

 Mueller, Abh. d. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., vol. 40, 1927, p. 288. 



1885. CneniidopJiorus Icinniscatics BoErrrGER,' Zeitschr f. Naturwiss. Zool., vol. 

 58, p. 217. — Bertoni, Fauna Paraguaya, 1913, p. 25. 



1897. CnemidopJwrus occeUifer Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, vol. 12, no. 274, p. 6. 



Systeinatic notes. — The Brazilian race runner was described from 

 Bahia, Brazil, by Spix (1825) as a species of Teius. Because of the 

 l^resence of five well developed toes on the hind foot, instead of four, 

 and because of the absence of a sheath between the posterior part 

 of the scaly portion of the tonfrue and the laiynx, the form has since 

 been transferred to the genus Cnemklojyhorus. 



Cnemidophorus hygomi was described by Reinhardt and Liitken 

 in 18G1 from Marium, Brazil. The differences cited in the diagnosis 



* The original Latin diagnosis of this form is rather rare, and tlierefore is included 

 here : " Minor, iDi-unneo-olivaceous ; hypochondriis serie bina ocellatis ; taenia utrinque 

 tenui alba a dorso lateral! usquo ad diiuidiam caudam ; scutello occipitali intermedio 

 rectangulo, supra anum unico." 



'According to the same author (P.oettger, 3S!);i, p. 73) this report (rarauuny) should 

 be referred to G. occllifer. The writer is at present unable to do more than synonymize 

 the name as indicated, and this seems reasonable since the range of lemniscatus is far 

 removed from Paraguay. 



