Sept. 4, 1909 Vou. IV, pp. 47-52 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
SOME NEW SOUTH AMERICAN COLD-BLOODED 
VERTEBRATES. 
BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 
From October, 1908, to May, 1909, I made a somewhat extended 
journey in South America. The opportunity to represent Harvard 
University at the first Pan-American Scientific Congress, which 
was held in December in Santiago de Chile, was the real occasion 
of the trip. The larger part of the time, however, was utilized in 
making collections of the lower vertebrates and insects, to supple- 
ment the already very large collections from tropical America, 
which are in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. Material 
was obtained from Petropolis, Brazil; several stations in the Argen- 
tine; north, central, and southern Chile; the highlands of Bolivia 
and of Peru, as well as the lower-lying coastal region of Peru; 
_ Panama, Jamaica, and Cuba. 
The collection as a whole, while fairly extensive, does not contain 
many new forms, though a number are of interest because of their 
scarcity in museums. To one who has collected considerably 
through the tropical portions of Asia and the East Indies, the reptile 
life of even Panama, with its heavy rainfall and luxuriant vegeta- 
tion, seems scant and disappointing. ‘The remarkably abundant 
