SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 179 
TEIIDAE. 
51. AMEIVA AUBERI Cocteau. 
Plate 14, fig. 14. 
Corre-costa; Culebrina (Santiago de Cuba). 
Diagnosis: — An olivaceous brown ground-lizard generally with three nar- 
row light stripes on the back, and a broad dark lateral stripe on each side. A 
shy and swiftly moving species, with an acutely pointed head and a very long 
round tail. 
Description:—Adult # M.C. Z. 7,277. Cuba: Camaguey, 1908. Thomas 
Barbour. 
Rostral forming a little more than a right angle behind; nostril on the 
posterior edge of the anterior nasal; anterior pair of nasals broadly in contact 
behind the rostral; frontonasal as long as wide, in contact with the loreal; pre- 
frontals broadly in contact; frontal in contact with the first and second supra- 
ocular; a pair of frontoparietals in contact with the third supraocular for nearly 
their entire length; five occipitals ina transverse row, the two in contact with 
the median, largest; seven supraciliaries; three supraoculars, the first separ- 
ated from the loreal; two posterior supraoculars separated from the supra- 
ciliaries by a double row of granules; last supraocular separated from the outer 
occipitals by three rows of small scales; seven large supralabials; five large 
infralabials; between the infralabials and chin-shields a wedge of one to three 
rows of granules extending anteriorly to the first chin-shield; chin and throat 
covered with granules, an indistinct band of very slightly larger ones extending 
across the middle, the median ones forming an ill-defined central group of 
slightly enlarged scales; on the area between the two throat-folds several rows 
of large hexagonal scales; under side of the body with ten longitudinal and 
thirty-five transverse rows of plates; preanal plates, two anterior median 
and three posterior marginal ones; on the lower arm a double row of ante- 
brachials, one much wider than the other, both decreasing in width towards 
the elbow joint; on the upper arm a similar but narrower single row of brachials 
continuous with the antebrachials; on the posterior side near the elbow a small 
eroup of enlarged postbrachials; under side of the thighs covered with six or 
seven series of hexagonal plates of which the outer series is considerably larger 
than the others; thirteen and fourteen femoral pores; on the under side of the 
