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dark green, with blackish cross bands; a light lateral streak; lilac below; 690 

 mm deborrei (p. 7 1) 



2. A series of projecting triangular scales on the posterior contour of the head; a 



feeble dorsal crest 3 



No distinct serration on the posterior contour of head; no dorsal crest present; 

 reddish or olive above with darker bands across back; a broad dark band 

 from the eye to foreleg, passing through tympanum, bordered by a yellowish 

 streak inferiorly; a yellowish streak from axilla to groin sometimes broken; 

 a yellow spot on each side of base of tail; lower surfaces pink; 730 mm. 



longipes (p. 71) 



3. Scales around middle of body, 57-61 ; reddish or purplish above with dark brown 



bands across body, most distinct in the vertebral region; a dark brown band 

 from eye to tympanum, sometimes continued along side of back; a white 

 streak from below the eye to forelimb, and from axilla to groin; a white spot 



on each side of base of tail serratus (p. 70) 



Scales round middle of body, 45-51; gulars elongate; a less distinct vertebral 

 serration; a white spot in front of and one behind thigh. 



alticoronatus " (p. 70) 



LAEMANCTUS ALTICORONATUS Cope 



Laemanctus alticoronatus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 192; 

 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1869, pi. 11. — Boulenger, Catalogue of the 

 lizards of the British Museum, vol. 2, 1885, p. 105. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. No. 308; Arthur Schott collector. 



Type locality. — Merida, Yucatan. 



Range. — Yucatan. Reported from Chichen Itza and Merida. 



LAEMANCTUS SERRATUS Cope 



Laemanctus longipes, Dumeril, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 8, 1856, p. 512, 

 pi. 21, fig. 4. — BocouRT, Mission scientifique au Mexique . . . , Etudes sur 

 les reptiles, livr. 3, 1874, pp. 114-116, pi. 17, fig. 4 (non Wiegmann, fide 

 Cope loc. cit.). 



Laemanctus serratus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, p. 176. — 

 Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 2, 1877, p. 463, pi. 7, fig. 3.— 

 Smith and Laufe, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 48, 1945, pp. 229-231. — 

 Peters, Chicago Acad. Sci. Nat. Hist. Misc., No. 27, 1948, pp. 1-3, fig. 1. 



Type. — Mus. Leyden. 



Type locality. — "Orizaba Valley, Mexico." 



Range. — Lowlands from extreme eastern Guanajuato to Yucatdn. 

 Reported from Yucatan: Chichen Itza; Oaxaca: "Oaxaca" (no specific 

 locality), Tlacolula; Veracruz: Boca del Rio, Jicaltepec, Misantla, 

 Orizaba; Guanajuato: Huasteca Potosina; Hidalgo: Zacualtipan; Cam- 

 peche: Champot6n, Oxpemul; San Luis Potosi: Xilitla; Tamaulipas: 

 near G6mez Farias. 



M Mrs. Helen T. Oaige suggests the possibility that serratus and alticoronatus may be identical since speci- 

 mens from Yucat&n and Campeche seem to show the characters of both (Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 

 No. 457, 1936, p. 296). 



