322 Alexander G. Ruthven, 



The yoiing- diifer from the feinales in haviiig- brighter stripes. 



The females in the collection have on an averag-e fewer femoral 

 pores than the males. bnt occasional females have as many as the 

 maximnm niimber (21) exhibited by the males, while some males 

 have as few as 15, the minimum number for the series (male, female) 

 being 14. Tlie averag-e numbers in a suite of 32 specimens (17 females 

 and 15 males) are 15,7 for the females and 18 for the males. 



SüMiCHEAST ^) States that the Ameivas rarely leave the interior 

 of woods and are never seen in barren places. This Statement is 

 too g-eneral. AVe foiind A. undulaia to be very widely distributed 

 in the region studied, occurring- in the jungle, in the cane fields. in 

 the cleared areas along the streams where there was grass and 

 bushes, and in the thickets of low bushes on the savannah. Further- 

 more, it was more abundant in the open places than in the woods. 

 It should be said, however, that it was seldom observed in the most 

 open places, i. e., on the savannah grassland and in cleared areas 

 whei'e there were no bushes and where the grass was Short, but 

 seemed to prefer thickets of low bushes in sunny places and the 

 margins of the forest. They were very common in the cane fields. 



The stomachs of the several specimens examined are all gorged 

 with insects and contain nothing eise. 



Cneiniclopiiorus deppii Wiegmann. 



Apparently rare; only three specimens secured — on the Hacienda 

 de Cuatotolapam. 



The specimens obtained are more or less distinctly 9-striped. 

 In the adults the first three stripes are distinct, but the fourth on 

 either side is only indistinctly separated from the central, the three 

 forming a broad mid-field which is only slightly duller in color than 

 the stripes. In the Single young individual the fourth pair of stripes 

 is distinctly separated by a narrow band of black from the mid- 

 stripe, which is dark olive like the top of the head. 



The three specimens taken were found in a thicket of low bushes 

 on the savannah near the San Juan Eiver. In this thicket, which 

 was about 100 meters in diameter, there were scores of Ameiva undu- 

 laia, but these three specimens of C. deppei were the only ones seen. 

 That they were really rare in this habitat and not merely over- 

 looked was shown by the fact that the thicket was worked thoroly, 



1) Quoted by Günther, iu: Biol. Centr.-Amer., ^. 25. 



