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and the spots on the sides, the mainland reports of this lizard are 

 not given full credence here. In support of this action, it may be 

 stated that the writer has examined the many South American speci- 

 mens of both Anieiva and Cneimdoyhorus in the leading American 

 museums, and finds them all to differ from murinus. 



The type locality of murinus which was given as "Guiana," may, 

 as indicated above, be an error. Werner (1900, p. 266) reported as 

 murmus, a specimen said to have been collected at Puerto Cabello, 

 Venezuela, and Van Lidth de Jeude (1904, p. 89) one from Gonini, 

 Surinam. As already surmised, these, and likewise the record from 

 the Bartica District of British Guiana given by Beebe (1919, p. 212) 

 may have been based on either Cnemidophorus lemniscatus lemnis- 

 catus or Ameiva amelva ameiva. Rooij (1922, p. 252) listed a 

 specimen from Caracas Bay as Cnemidojyhorus murinus^ but most 

 of her specimens were from Curagao. Her " Jan Tiel " report is 

 assumed to have been from Curasao, since she lists the measurements 

 of a specimen from there. 



A specimen in the American Museum of Natural History (No. 

 680) was labeled as from " Guiana, South America " and another in 

 the same collection (No. 28404) simply as from "Venezuela." These 

 indefinite reports may be held to indicate that murinus may occur on 

 the mainland, as do the records cited from the literature, and only 

 the future work of herpetologists can definitely settle this point. 



The occurrence of inurinus on Cura(^ao and Bonaire may be sum- 

 marized as follows : 



Bo^Ai-RE.— {General Report, Meek, 1910, p. 417, Mich., F.M.N.H.; 

 Klein Bonaire Island, Ruthven, 1923, p. 8, Mich.; Pos Frances, 

 Ruthven, 1923, 8, Mich. ; Santa Barharco, l>eyond El Hato, Ruthven, 

 1923, p. 8, Mich. ; Seroe Grandi, near Playa Mahosji, Ruthven, 1923, 

 p. 8, Mich.; Seroe Grandi, ^^ miles northwest of Kralendijk, 

 Ruthven, 1923, p. 8, Mich. ; Seroe Wassau, Ruthven, 1923, p. 8, Mich.). 



CxTR^qKO.— {General Report, Cope, 1885, p. 182, Mich., U.S.N.M.; 

 Klein Curagao, Ruthven, 1923, p. 8, Mich. ; 6 miles tuest of entrance to 

 Laguna, near Willemhrodus, Mich. ; North side of Ronde Klip, Mich. ; 

 Schatioo, Mich.). 



Hahitat and Habits. — Nothing is known concerning the habitat of 

 this form and the following note from Loennberg (1902, p. 28) per- 

 taining to its food, is apparently all that is known about its habits : 

 "One stomach contained the remains of a beetle, otherwise only 

 vegetable matter, mostly unbroken leaflets supposed to have belonged 

 to some leguminous plant, a couple of rather large dark bean-like 

 seeds and a piece of some plant containing a lot of crystals of 

 oxalate." 



