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the posterior of the larger series is largest. Three or four 

 rows of small brachial plates, second row largest ; ante- 

 brachials one row of large and three rows of small ones; 

 postbrachials small. Eight or nine rows of femoral plates 

 and live of tibials. Twenty-six to twenty-eight femoral 

 pores. Digits serrated ; fifth toe shorter than the inner. 

 Caudals keeled. 



Dorsal surface of body, head and legs uniform olive 

 brown ; flanks darker to black with three series of white 

 spots, the first of which extends along the upper edge to 

 the base of the tail, the second is the more irregular and 

 extends on the thigh, and the third runs along the outer 

 series of ventrals. Lower surface olivaceous, darker 

 under throat and fold, lighter and yellowish near the vent 

 and under the legs. Under the fold the throat is white. 

 Tail sprinkled with brown. 



Young ones are lighter colored and have a narrow light 

 line along the upper edge of each flank and a second half 

 way down the side including between them a darker band 

 on which posteriorly there are a few lightish spots. 



Hab. Dominica. 



Ameiva pluvianotata sp. n. 



Nostril in the posterior border of the anterior nasal ; 

 occipitals irregular, seven or more; four supraoculars ; 

 seven or eight supraciliaries ; loreal undivided : six labials. 

 Six lower labials ; submentals one anterior and five pairs. 

 Enlarged gnlar grannies Conn a band of eight or ten series 

 across the throat, median larger; mesoptyehiiim with sev- 

 eral rows of enlarged scales, of which those toward the 

 sides are larger than the median and larger than the <:n- 

 lars. Dorsal granules very small, smooth, median slight^ 

 enlarged. Ventrals in fourteen rows, transverse series 



