CHECKLIST OF REPTILES OF MEXICO 71 



LAEMANCTUS DEBORREI Boulenger 



Laemandus deborrei Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 2, 1877, pp. 462- 

 463, 465-466, pi. 7, fig. 1; Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, 

 vol. 2, 1885, p. 106. — Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 34, 1944, pp. 

 155-156.— Weber, Nat. Geogr. Mag., vol. 87, No. 2, 1945, pp. 209, 210, pi. 

 14 (col.). 



Type. — Museum de Bruxelles, two adults; M. Linden collector (?). 



Type locality. — Tabasco. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes from Tabasco to British Honduras. 

 Reported from Tabasco: La Venta; Oaxaca: Mountains near Santo 

 Domingo (U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



LAEMANCTUS LONGIPES Wiegmann 



Laemandus longipes Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana, pt. 1, 1834, p. 46, pi. 

 4. — Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 2, 1877, pp. 464-465, pi. 7, 

 fig. 2; Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, vol. 2, 1885, pp. 105- 

 106. 



Type. — Zool. Mus. Berlin; F. Deppe collector. 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Range. — Eastern slopes of the plateau from Veracruz to Oaxaca, and 

 (?) western slopes in Colima. Reported from Veracruz: Actopam, 

 Jalapa, "near Veracruz," Mu-ador, Potrero Viejo; ? Colima: Paso del 

 Rio; Oaxaca: Oaxaca. 



Genus BASILISCUS Laurenti 



Basiliscus Laurenti, Specimen medicum exhibens synopsin reptilium, 1768, p. 50. 

 Corythaeolus Kaup, Isis von Oken, vol. 21, 1828, p. 1147 (type, Basiliscus vittatus 



Wiegmann) . 

 Oedicoryphus Wagler, Natiirliches System der Amphibien, 1830, p. 148 (type, 



Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann). 

 Cristasaura Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1852, p. 439 (type, 



Cristasaura mitrella Gray^ Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann). 

 Paraloma Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1867, p. 181 (type, Dacon- 



ura hivittata Hallo well =Bosi7iscus vittatus Wiegmann). 



Genotype. — Basiliscus americanus ljQMre,ni\= {Basiliscus basiliscus 

 (Linnaeus)). 



Range. — Lowlands of Mexico south through Jalisco and Tamaulipas, 

 through Central America to northwestern South America. 



Species. — Five; one occurs in Mexico. 



BASIUSCUS VITTATUS Wiegmann 



Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann, Isis von Oken, vol. 21, 1828, p. 373. — Dum£ril, 

 Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 8, 1856, pp. 522-524, pi. 21, figs. 2, 3.— 

 BocouRT, Mission scientifique au Mexique . . . , fitudes sur les reptiles, livr. 

 3, 1874, pp. 129-131, pi. 17, fig. 3. — Boulenger, Catalogue of the lizards of 

 the British Museum, vol. 2, 1885, pp. 109-110. 



Cristasaura mitrella Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1852, p. 439 

 (Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.; Dyson coll.; Honduras). 



