24. Lior,J:;iius. 149 



that extending on each side of the back, from the eye to the base of 

 the tail, widest and best defined ; between the light bands, series of 

 large squarish black spots ; a black longitudinal streak on the upper 

 surface of the snout, and another, curved one, bordering on each 

 side the interorbital region, which is usually yellowish ; lower sur- 

 faces greyish white, with metallic gloss, mottled with bluish black, 

 sometimes nearly entirely black. 



Total length 128 millim. 



Head 13 



Width of head 11 



Body 4'J 



Fore limb 21 „ 



Hind limb 32 „ 



Tail GG „ 



Straits of Magellan. 



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a. (S . Cape Gregory. C Darwin, Esq. [P.] 



b-e. (S2- PhiHp Bay. Dr. Cunningham [C. 



f-k. J, 5,&hgr. Sts. of Magellan. Dr. Cauningham [C 



12. Liolaemus lineomaculatus. 



LeioljBuius kingii, part., Gray, Cat. p. 215. 

 Proctotretus kiugii, part., Bell, Zool. Beayle, Rept. p. 1-3, pi. vi. fig. 2. 



Very closely related to the preceding, which it resembles in pro- 

 portions, size, and coloration, but to be distinguished by the follow- 

 ing characters : — Temporal scales not distinctly keeled. Scales on the 

 sides of the neck minute, granular. Scales of the body smaller, fifty- 

 four to sixty round the middle ; lateral scales smaller than dorsals and 

 ventrals ; dorsal scales shorter, simply ])ointed. The adpressed hind 

 limb reaches nearly the axil in the female, the shoulder in the male. 

 Pale olive or greyish above, with pale longitudinal streaks and 

 blackish s(iuarish spots arranged as in the preceding species : lower 

 parts more or less abundantly spotted or marbled with blackish. 



Total length 121 miUim. 



Head 13 „ 



Width of head 11 



Body 43 



Fore limb 2U „ 



Hind limb 31 ,, 



Tail 65 „ 



Patagonia. 



ci-d. d' 5 • Patagonia. , C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



13. Liolaemus kingii. 



Leioltcmus kingii, part., Gray, Cat. p. 21o. 

 Proctotretus fitzingeri. part., Dam. tV Bidr. iv. p. 280; Guichen. in 

 Gay, Hid. Chile, liept. p. ^8. 



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