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Type locality. — Belize, British Honduras. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes from central Veracruz through the Yucatan 

 Peninsula, including Honduras and northern Guatemala; on Pacific 

 slopes in Chiapas and undoubtedly adjacent Guatemala. Reported 

 from Veracruz: Jalapa, Potrero Viejo, San Lorenzo, Orizaba, Tezonapa, 

 Zempoala, Presidio, San Juan Cuatotolapam ; Oaxaca: San Crist6bal, 

 Cosolapa; Tabasco: Teapa, Tenosique; Campeche: Tuxpefia Camp, 

 Apasote, Encarnaci6n; Yucatan: Chichen Itza, Mayapan, Puz, Gon- 

 gora Caves, Ziz, Xkyc Cave; Chiapas: La Esperanza, Piedra Parada; 

 Quintana Roo: Mujeres Island. 



COLEONYX ELEGANS NEMORAUS Klaaber 



Coleonyx elegans, Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (vol. 2), 1905, p. 212. 

 Coleonyx elegans nemoralis Ivlauber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 

 1945, pp. 195-199. 



Type.— EB.T-HUS No. 10509; Hobart M. Smith collector. 



Type locality. — Hacienda Paso del Rio, Colima. 



Range. — Colima to southeastern Oaxaca (probably also Michoac§,n). 

 Probably confined to the coastal area of these states. Reported from 

 Guerrero: Cocoyul, Agua del Obispo, 4 to 5 miles north of Acapulco; 

 Michoacdn: vicinity of JoruUo (?); Oaxaca: (said to be intergrades 

 with elegans) Tehuantepec, Mixtequilla, Tapanatepec, etc. 



COLEONYX FASCIATUS (Boulenger) 2« 



Eublepharis fasciatus Boulenger, Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, 

 vol. 1, 1S85, p. 423. — GtJNTHER, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and 

 Batrachia, 1893, p. 84, pi. 31, fig. A. 



Coleonyx fasciatus, Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 22, 1935, pp. 203-205.— 

 Klatjber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1945, pp. 182-184. 



Type. — Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.; A. Forrer collector. 



Type locality. — Ventanas, Durango. 



Range. — Known from western Durango, and Sinaloa. The only 

 known specific locality other than the type locality is Sinaloa: 10 

 miles south of Presidio. 



COLEONYX BREVIS Stejneger 



Coleonyx hrevis Stejxeger, North Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, pp. 163-164. — 

 Smith, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 36, 1933, pp. 301-314, fig. IB, pi. 1, 

 figs. 2-3.— Klauber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1945, pp. 

 184-191. 



Type.— v. S.'N.M. No. 13627; Mr. Marnock collector. 

 TyjJe locality. — Helotes, Bexar County, Tex. 



Range. — The Rio Grande Valley, from northern New Mexico to 

 southern Texas, and southward through eastern Chihuahua and 



" Bogert and Oliver (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 83, 1945, p. 330) suggest the possibility of inter- 

 gradation of this form with variegalm. There is no evidence whatsoever that such is the case. See Klauber, 

 loc. ett. 



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