24. LIOL^MUS. 151 



olive above, with blackish and whitish spots ; lower surface of neck, 

 breast, and middle of bell)- black. 



Total length 144 millim. 



Head 18 



Width of head 15 



Body 66 



Fore limb 29 



Hind limb 47 



Tail (reproduced) 60 



Chili ; Patasronia. 





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a. c? . Patagonia. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



15. Liolaemus pictus. 



Leiolffimus pictus, Gray, Cat. p. 213. 

 Proctotretus pictus, Dam. i^- Bihr. iv. p. 276 ; Bell, Zool. Bea(/le, 



Rept. p. 5, pi. ii. ; Hombr. ^~ Jacq. in Dinnont D'Urv. Voij. Pole 



8ud, liept. pi. ii. bi,-^. fi^-. 1 ; Guichen. in Gay, Hid. CJiile, Rept. 



p. 30, pi. i. Hg. 2. 

 Liolsemus (Liodeira) pictus, FUzing. Sysf. Rept. p. 74. 

 Eulremuy pictus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 198, and U.S. 



Explor. Expect., Herp. p. 3(U. 

 Proctotretus prasinus. Cope, Proc. Ac. P/tilad. 1868, p. 120. 



Nostril lateral. Upper head-scales rather small, smooth ; a small 

 azygos frontal, separated from the interparietal by a pair of fronto- 

 parietals ; interparietal smaller than parietals ; a series of more or 

 less distinctly enlarged supraoculars ; a single series of scales between 

 the labials and the infraorbital ; temporal scales smooth or obtusely 

 keeled; ear-opening without, or with one or two very small pro- 

 jecting scales in front. Sides of neck grannlar, irregularly plicate ; 

 an antehnmeral fold. Dorsal scales small, somewhat variable in size, 

 rhomboidal, pointed, strongly keeled ; lateral scales smaller, keeled ; 

 ventrals as large as dorsals, squarish, imbricate, smooth ; fifty-two 

 to seventy scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind 

 limb reaches the ear in the male, the shoulder or a little beyond in 

 the female ; hinder side of thighs uniformly granulate. Male with 

 two to four anal pores. Tail about once and two thirds as long as 

 head and body ; caudal scales a little larger than dorsals. Greenish 

 or olive above, variously spotted or marbled with black, a latero- 

 dorsal band of the lighter ground colour remaining immaculate ; the 

 black spots maybe large and angular, and form three or four zigzag 

 bands on the back ; the upper parts sometimes dotted all over with 

 pale green ; lower surfaces whitish or greenish, chin and sides of 

 throat reticulated or marbled with black. 



Total length 184 millim. 



Head 16 ,, 



Width ..riirad ll\ „ 



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