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Type locality. — Veraguas, Panamd. 



Range. — The eastern edge of the Yucatan Peninsula southeastward 

 to Colombia. No definite records from Mexico. ^^ 



SPHAERODACTYLUS GLAUCUS GLAUCUS Cope 



Sphaerodactylus glaucus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 192. — 



BouLENGER, Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, vol. 1, 1885, 



p. 221, pi. 18, fig. 3.— Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 47, 1921. 



pp. 240-241, pi. 14, figs. 5-8.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 31, 



pt. 2, 1947, pp. 305-309, fig. 2. 

 Sphaerodactylus glaucus glaucus, Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 39, 



1949, pp. 34-35. 

 Sphaerodactylus inornatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873, p. 738 



(Zool. Mus. Berlin No. 4589; Uhde coll.; Mexico ^^ here restricted to Te- 



huantepec, Oaxaca. 



Type.— U.S.N.M. No. 6572, thi-ee cotypes (now one, No. 13570, 

 in Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Arthur Schott collector. 



Type locality. — Near Merida, Yucatan. 



Range. — Known from southern Veracruz to Guatemala and British 

 Honduras, and possibly to Costa Rica. Reported from Oaxaca: Te- 

 huantepec, Salina Cruz, Guengola Mountain; Tabasco: Teapa; 

 Campeche: Tuxpena Camp, Ciudad del Carmen, Balchacaj, Apazote; 

 Veracruz: Perez, Coatzacoalcos River; Yucatan: Merida. 



SPHAERODACTYLUS GLAUCUS TORQUATUS Strauch 



Sphaerodactylus torquatus Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, ser. 7, vol. 



35, 1887, p. 35.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 31, 1947, pp. 302-305, 



figs. 1-2. 

 Sphaerodactylus glaucus torquatus, Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 



39, 1949, p. 35. 



Type. — Alus. Petrograd No. 3268, tlii-ee specimens; Hr. Salrain 

 collector. 



Type locality. — "Mazatian, Mexico" (= Mazatlan, Oaxaca?). 



Range. — Uncertain. Known from the type locality and Cajon de 

 Piedra, Oaxaca.^® 



Family IGUANIDAE Gray 



Iguanidae Gray, Philos. Mag., ser. 2, vol. 2, 1827, p. 56. 



Genera. — About 65 genera are commonly recognized; 21 occur in 

 Mexico. 



" The species is included here on the strength of its occxirrence in British Honduras (Schmidt, Publ. 

 Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 22, 1941, p. 489), for although it has been cited from "Mexico" by- 

 numerous authors, no definite record of its occurrence in that country Is known to us. Its existence in at 

 least Quintana Roo is virtually a certainty. 



" It now seems most probable that this name was applied to a unlcolor intergrade between S. g. glaucus 

 and S. g.torguahis such as those known to occur in the vicinity of Tchuantepec, Oaxaca. The entire descrip- 

 tion, of both scutellation and coloration, fits glaucus, not lineolatus, although Barbour (op. cit., p. 238) places 

 Peters's name in the synonymy of the latter species. See Smith, loc. cit., and Taylor, loc. cit., for 

 discussion.— H. M. S. 



*' The subspecies does not occur in the vicinity of the city of Tehuan tepee, but only, so far as we are aware, 

 near the coast southwest of Salina Cruz, where a village by the name of Mazatlan does exist. 



