346 TEIID^. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 4-10 From end of snout 



Head 30 to vent 120 



Width of head 22 Fore limb 48 



From end of snout Hind limb 102 



to fore limb 51 Tail 320 



Ecuador. 



a-b. (S • Guayaquil. Mr. Fraser [C.]. 



2. Ameiva septemlineata. 



Ameiva septemlineata, A. Bum. Cat. Meth. Eept. p. 112; Bocourt, 

 Miss. Sc. Mex., Bept. pi. xx. a. fig. 4. 



sexscutata, O'dnth. Prvc. Zuol. Sue. 1859, p. 402. 



Holcosus septeralineatus, Cojje, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 60. 

 sexscutatus, Coioe, I. e. 



Nostril between the two nasals ; interorbital region with two or 

 three longitudinal rows of plates ; occipital region with numerous 

 small irregular shields ; supraoculars two, bordered by granules, 

 except usually the anterior on the inner side ; four or five supra - 

 ciliaries, second (or first) very long ; loreal undivided ; eight upper 

 labials. Four or five lower labials, third very long ; chin-shields, 

 one anterior and five pairs ; no strongly enlarged median gular 

 scales ; a row of large plates on the mesoptychium. Dorsal granules 

 minute, slightly keeled. Ventral plates in six longitudinal series ; 

 twenty-five to twenty-eight transverse series, commencing from the 

 granules o£ the collar. Three large, rounded anal plates, anterior 

 largest, arranged in a triangle. Brachial and antebrachial plates 

 large, in one row, confluent ; a row of large postbrachials. Three 

 rows of large femoral plates, those of the median row smallest ; two 

 rows of large tibial plates. Femoral pores eighteen to twenty. 

 Digits rather strongly serrated. Caudal scales keeled, the keels very 

 strong, almost spinose on a series on each side of the anterior part 

 of the tail. Greenish olive ; a whitish dorsal streak from the snout 

 to the middle of the tail ; two other whitish streaks on each side, 

 separated by a black band. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 267 From end of snout 



Head 22 to vent 87 



Width of head 14-5 Fore limb 35 



From end of snout Hind limb 65 



to fore limb 43 Tail 180 



Ecuador. 



a. J . Andes of W. Ecuador. Mr. Eraser [C.]. (Type of 



Ameiva sexscutata.) 

 h-c. 5 and hgr. Tanti, 2000 ft. Edw. Whymper, Esq. [C.]. 



