44 SMITHSONIAN MlSCKLI.ANEOrS COLLECTIONS • VOL. 92 



CNEMIDOPHORUS MURINUS MURINUS (Laurenti) 



Scps Hiuriniis Laurenti, Synops. Kept., p. 63, 1768. 



U.S.N.M. nos. 79271-2 from a hill il miles west of Kralendijk, 

 Bonaire Island, September 12; 79273-303 from Bonaire Island, Sep- 

 tember 13-14, 1929; nos. 79304-14 from Curasao, September 16, 1929. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS LEMNISCATUS LEMNISCATUS (Linnaeus) 



Lacerta lemniscata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 209, 1758. 



U.S.N.M. nos. 79219-23 from Los Robles, Margarita Island, Sep- 

 tember 8, 1929. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS LEMNISCATUS NIGRICOLOR (Peters) 



Cncniidophonts nigricolor Peters, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 76, 

 1873- 

 U.S.N.M. no. 79230 from Orchilla Island, September 10, 1929 ; nos. 

 79232-54 from El Roque, September 11, 1929. Most of the adults of 

 the latter series are dull black in color, either uniform or with minute 

 white dots. 



The low trailing shrubbery on the beach south of the village [on the leeward 

 side of El Roque Island] had many lizards of two kinds, or probably three: 

 one sooty, one plain brownish, and one spotted. These, when followed, would 

 dive in the crab burrows for shelter and thus elude the pursuer. 



Family AMPHISBAENIDAE 



AMPHISBAENA CUBANA Peters 

 Amphishaciia cnhana Peters, Mon. Berlin Acad. Wiss., p. 780, 1878. 



U.S.N.M. no. 75861 from Santa Cruz Mountains in Camagiiey 

 Province, Cuba, September i, 1928. 



Family SCINCIDAE 

 MABUYA AENEA (Gray) 



'I'iliqna acnca Gray, Griffith's Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, vol. 9, .Synops. Rcpt., 

 p. 70, 1 83 1. 

 U.S.N.M. no. 79131, from Petit Martiniqtie, Grenadines, August 

 21, 1929. This handsome specimen has the stipranasals separated, 28 

 scale rows, and 54 scales from vent to chin. 



