12 L. G. ANDERSSON, CATAL. OF LINNEAN TYPE-SPECIMENS OF REPTILIA. 



three specimens, two of which are true Atneiva surinamensis 

 (Latjr.), and one is a Tupinanihis nigropimctatus Spix. Accor- 

 ding to Lönnberg (loc. cit. p. 16), the type for Linnceus's de- 

 scription in Amoen. acad. p. 293 (the type for the description 

 p. 127 is löst) is also an Ameiva surinamensis, which species 

 thus, as Lönnberg says, ought to be called Ameiva ameiva (L.). 



Ameiva ameiva: Total length 442 mm.; leiigth of the body (to 

 the veut) 132 mm. 



Ameiva ameiva: Total length 257 mm. (tail mutilated); length o£ 

 the body (to the vent) 134 mm. 



Tupinambis nigropunctatus : Total length 416 mm., length of the 

 body (to the vent) 152 mm. 



Lacerta teguixin. 



Linnaeus in Amoen. acad. Tom. I, N:o V, p. 128, N:o 14 and 

 N:o XVI, p. 501, N:o 18; Mus. Ad. Frid. /, p. 45; Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 

 p. 208. Syn. in Boul. cat. Liz. II, p. 335, Tupinambis teguixin (L.). 

 According to Quensel there were four specimens of this 

 species from Museum Drottningholmense, and we find at pre- 

 sent in the museum four which might be those Quensel 

 meant, though only one of them bears Drottningholm label. Of 

 the other specimens there is one which is provided with a 

 damaged label, but we are still able to see that the inscrip- 

 tion must ha ve been »teguixin^K The label of the two other 

 specimens (kept in the same jar) is completely discoloured 

 and also of a different shape from the usual Quensel labels, 

 though he sometimes seems to hava used even this kind. It 

 is then evident that at least one of the specimens mentioned 

 has been Linnaäus's type; probably also the other. They are 

 all true Tupinambis nigropunctatus Spix. 



Lönnberg, however, has shown that another Tupinambis 



species, T. teguixin (L.) auct., which the authors regard as 



the type of Linneeus, really was that in Amoen. acad. (Am- 



pjhihia Gyllenhorgiana), wherefore this form, of course, ought 



to maintain its old Linnean name. 



Total length 273 mm., length of the body (to the vent) 101 mm. 



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Lacerta chamaeleo. 



Linnteus in Amoen. acad. Tom. I, N:o XI., p. 290, N:o 16 and 

 N:o XVI, p. 501, N:o 19; Mus. Ad. Frid. 7, p. 45; Syst. Nat. Ed. X., 

 p. 204 (named L. chamseleon). 



