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Borol., 1856, p. 13. — Jan, Imlice Sist. dei Rett, etl Anfibi Mus. Civ. di Milano, 

 1857, p. 40. — Cope, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci Pliila., 1802, p. 35G. — Reinhardt aud 

 LiJTKEN, Vidensk. ]Moddel. nat. Foren, 1862, p. 168. — Cope, Proc. Amer. Pliilos. 

 Soc, vol. 11, 1869, p. 158. — "Westphal-Castelnau, C. R. trav. Cong. sci. de 

 France, teuu a Moutpellier en dec. 1868, 1870, p. 19. — Bocoukt, Miss. sci. Mex. 

 et Amer. cent., vol. 3, 1874, pp. 269, 273, pi. 20e, figs. 1, lo-<i.— Peters, 

 Monatsb. Berlin Akad. Wissensch., 1877, p. 412. — ^Botjlenger, Cat. Liz. Britisb 

 Mus., vol. 2., 1885, p. 361. — Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 17, 1892, p. 

 30; Ann. Rept. U. S. Nat. INIus. for 1898, 1900, p. 568.— Werner, Verbandl. 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1900, p. 266. — Harteret, Novitates Zoologicae (Tring 

 Mus.), vol. 9, 1902, p. 294. — Loennberg, Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 

 Handl., vol. 28, 1902, p. 28. — Van Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leydeu Mus., vol. 

 25, 1904, p. 89.— Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, p. 301.— Meek, Publ. 

 Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 7, 1910, p. 417. — Barboxjr, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 44, 1914, p. 218. — Roou, Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde (Feest 

 Nummer .... van Dr. Max Weber), vol. 22, 1922, pp. 249, 252.— Ruthven, 

 Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Micb.. no. 143, 1923, p. 8. — Werner, Zeitscbr. 

 wissenscb. Zool., vol., 125, 1925, p. 537. 



1838. Amciva guttata Gray. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol 1, p. 277, 

 (type locality, unknown). 



ISSo. CneinidoijJioiKs iniiriiiiis (part) Cope, Proc. Amer. Pbilos. Soc, vol. 22, 

 pp. 181-182. 



1899. CnemidophoiK'^ )iiiiihiiii.s Cope, Sci. Bull. Pbila. ^Museums, vol. 1, p. 9, 

 {lapsus calamus ) . 



1925. CiKinidopliorus aru'bciisis Werner, Zeitscbr. f. wissenscb. Zool., vol. 125, 

 pp. 537, 545, (part). 



1925. Cncinidophorus muriitus itiui-'inus Burt aud Burt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 78, art. 6, 1930, p. 31. 



Systematic notes. — Like lemmscatus, inurinus was figured by 

 Seba.'^ Thus, it is one of the oldest known forms of Cnemidophorus. 

 It was overlooked by Linnaeus, but w^as given the name, Seps mun- 

 nus, by Laurenti (1768), who described it from "Guiana." In the 

 period just after this nuirinus was more or less confused with Jemni- 

 scatus^ and was not given j^osition as a species of Cnemidophorus 

 until the appearance of the work of Wiegmann in 1834. 



Ameiva guttata was described by Gray in 1838 from an unknown 

 locality. At this time the distinctions between Am,eiva and Cnemi- 

 dopliorus were very imperfectly known and it is not surprising that 

 a specimen of murinus should, on account of its large size and gen- 

 eral appearance, have been placed in the genus Ameiva. It is fairly 

 certain that the type was of the present species because '■'•Seps murinus 

 Laur." was listed as a full synonym of guttata in the original de- 

 scription, which read as follows. "Olive-green; sides darker, with 

 G or 7 cross-rows of 3-4 large white spotes; abdominal plates 10- 

 rowed * * * Our specimen is bleached." Still, it appears that 

 in spite of the fact that murinus was included originally in the 

 synonymy of guttata^ the species might as well have been based on 

 a spotted example of Ameiva ameiva ameiva. 



" Vol. 2. 1785, pi. 105, fig. 2. 



