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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
List (if x/tccijiii)ix. 
Fig. 5.— Ameiva ameiva, 
X 2. 
U.S.N. M. No. 
Collector's 
No. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
22526 
27787 
A 25 
S 
La Gnaira 
do 
June 25, 1895 
July 2.1900 
July 5, 1900 
27788 12 
flo 
This species, according to Captain Ro])inson, is 
common at La (iuaira, where it is known as the 
"mato." He describes the color of the living- 
animal (No. 22526) as follows: Head, brown above: 
chin and throat, black; center of back, l)ronze 
o-reen. Lives in burrows, and has a habit of 
licking- out its forked tongue like a snake. 
CNEMIDOPHORUS LEMNISCATUS (Daudin). 
Lixt (if ff])echneiis. 
U.S.N.M. No. 
Collector's 
No. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
22528 
22529 
27786 
27809 
27S10 
27811 
27812 
27813 
27814 
27815 
27816 
27829 
27830 
A 1 
A 8 
2 
31 
33 
32 
27 
37 
34 
36 
35 
La Guaira 
do 
June 21, 1895 
June 22, 1895 
July 2,1900 
July 25,1900 
do. 
do. 
July 15,1900 
July 25,1900 
"do. 
do. 
do. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do.. . 
RioChico 
do 
Captain Robinson's notes contain the following 
description of the living animal (No. 22528): 
Head, neck, front legs, and portions of hind legs "birds'-egg" blue; flanks golden 
green; baek of head and back brownish, with fine lighter stripe, then darker; tail 
greenish; iris bright yellow. He adds that this is by far the commonest lizard on 
the Venezuelan coast. It runs with great rapidity. During the halts, after its little 
darts, it has the hal)it of nervously {latting one of its fore feet as if in a hurry to make 
another start. 
SERPENTES. 
BOA RUSCHENBERGII (Cope). 
The generic name B(Hf must ho retained for the genus afterwards 
known as Corallus Daudin (1803), while Constrictor must .be used for 
the group ordinarily designated as Boa., as will ])e seen from the 
following analysis. 
