42 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. ()2 



I find only lo rows of uniform-sized scales flanked by a row of nuicli 

 smaller scales at each side in most of the specimens before me. 



Dr. Bartsch gives the following note on living coloration of the 

 Petit Mustique lizards : 



Punctations on sides greenish yellow ; head, etc., marbled with brown streaks. 

 Throat gray. Belly bright peacock-blue, most intense on the under side of tail. 

 Upper side of tail dark, variegated. 



AMEIVA AUBERI Cocteau 

 Ameiva auberi Cocteau, in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Rept., p. 74, 1838. 



Examples of this lizard are U.S.N.M. no. 81654 from the north side 

 of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, obtained August 14, 1930; nos. 81665-7 

 from Cusco Valley in the province of Guantanamo, Cuba, August 16, 

 1930; no. 81678 from Rio Puerco in Oriente, Cuba, August 29, 1930; 

 no. 81700 from Doce Leguas, cay at longitude 78° 33' W. on Sep- 

 tember 7, 1930; nos. 81701-3 from the southeast end of Doce Leguas, 

 Cuba, on the same date; 81704 from Doce Leguas on September 8, 

 1930; nos. 81705-6 from Pilot Point on Anclitos Bay, Doce Leguas, on 

 September 9, 1930; no. 81707 from Caballones, Doce Leguas, on the 

 same day; nos. 81718-9 from Mathias Cays on September 22, 1930; 

 no. 81766 from Cayo Avillon near Canapachi on September 21, 1930; 

 no. 81821 from Boqueron, Cuba, on August 19, 1930. 



AMEIVA FUSCATA Garman 



Ameiva fuscafa Gannan, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 19, p. S, 1887. 



U.S.N.M. no. 79023 from Danes, east of Portsmouth, Dominica, 

 August 4, 1929; no. 79024 from the Botanic Gardens in Rousseau, 

 Dominica, August 6, 1929. 



AMEIVA MAYNARDII MAYNARDII (Garman) 



Ameiva maymrdii Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 20, p. 10, 1888. 



Four lizards belonging to this species were taken from August 7 

 to 10, 1930, on Great Inagua Island, — U.S.N.M. nos. 81271-2 from 

 Mathewtown, and 81275-6 from Man of War Bay. 



The scale formulae for these lizards are very similar. The femoral 

 pores vary between 10 and 14; the subdigital lamellae are 34 to 39; 

 the tail at the fifteenth verticil has in every case 23 rows of scales ; the 

 transverse rows of ventrals number 33 to 35, and the longitudinal rows 

 are 8 in all cases. 



