Number 2. December 27, 1913. 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan. Published by the University. 



ON AM EI V A BIFRONTATA COPE AND AM HIV A 

 DIVJSUS (FISCHER). 



IjY Alexander G. Ruthven. 



In the course of a study of the reptiles of the Sierra 

 Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, and environs, the writer 

 has been led to investigate the status of Auiewa hifrontata 

 Cope and Cncmidophonis dk'isus Fischer, with the results set 

 forward in this paper. 



In the original description Cope^ gives as one of the char- 

 acters of Aniciva hifrontata "three posterior supraoculars sur- 

 rounded with granular scales in the male," whereas "in females 

 the anterior supraocular is in contact with the second." The 

 type locality is given as the island of St. Thomas, but it is 

 remarked that "the specimens described as females are labeled 

 as coming from New Grenada, probably incorrectly." Boulen- 



1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 67. 



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