162 BULLETIN 199, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



15. Limbs long, overlapping when adpressed; strong, wide dorsolateral light lines; 



seventh labial broadly in contact with secondary upper labial; no primary 

 temporal; frontoparietals narrowly separated; scale rows, 28; snout to 



vent, 65 mm colimensis (p. 169) 



Limbs shorter, separated when adpressed 16 



16. Seventh labial not touching upper secondary temporal; primary temporal as 



large as upper secondary temporal; 24 scale rows; maximum length snout to 



vent, 51 mm parvulus (p. 166) 



Seventh labial broadly in contact with upper secondary temporal; primary 

 temporal present, smaller than upper secondary temporal; 22-24 scale rows 

 around middle of body; maximum length snout to vent, 66 mm. 



indubitus (p. 168) 



17. Primary temporal absent; limbs short, not touching when adpressed; seventh 



labial in contact with upper secondary temporal; 22 scale rows; dorsolateral 



lines growing dim posteriorly dicei (p. 169) 



Primary temporal present 18 



18. Four narrow dark dorsal lines and narrow dorsolateral light lines; 22-24 



scale rows; no postnasal; limbs widely separated when adpressed; maximum 



snout to vent length, 76 mm copei (p. 166) 



Dorsal pattern not of 4 narrow black lines 19 



19. Bifurcating lines on head; lateral and dorsolateral light lines rarely reaching 



farther back than arm; scale rows, 26-28; maximum snout to vent length, 



66 mm brevilineatus (p. 164) 



No bifurcating lines on head 20 



20. A postnasal; usually bronze olive, with lateral brown stripe, with sometimes 



trace of a dorsolateral light line; 26 scale rows; the limbs adpressed, 



the toes may or may not touch humilis (p. 166) 



No postnasal 21 



21. Scale rows 20 around body; ear small, median dorsal scales widened. 



parviauriculatus (p. 166) 

 Scale rows more than 20 22 



22. Scale rows 22 (rarely 24); body slender, dorsolateral lines distinct to tail; 



seventh labial usually touching upper secondary temporal; snout to vent 



56 mm ochoterenai (p. 169) 



Scale rows usually 24, rarely 22; dorsolateral lines to tail or not; parietal 

 usually not enclosed but occasionally may be enclosed, variable. 



brevirostris (p. 168) 



EUMECES SCHWARTZEI Fischer 



Eumeces schwartzei Fischer, Abh. Nat. Ver. Hamburg, vol. 8, 1884, pp. 3-5, 

 pi. 7, fig. 1.— Taylor, Uniy. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1935 (1936), 

 pp. 94-101, figs. 5, 6, pi. 1. 



Type. — Naturh. Mus., Hamburg, Germany .^^ 



Type locality. — "Einer kleinen Insel in der Laguna de Terminos 

 (Campeche Bai)." 



Range. — Campeche, Tabasco, Yucatan; in Central America it is 

 known from Guatemala and British Honduras. Keported from 

 Campeche: Tres Brazos, Encarnaci6n, Isla de Carmen; Tabasco: 

 Tenosique; Yucatan: Chichen Itza. 



" This specimen was actually taken aboard ship in a cargo of dyewood and collected on board ship, alive, 

 collector unknown. It was sent to the Zoologischen Garten In Hamburg. At its death it was sent to the 

 Naturhistorischen Museum of Hamburg. 



