5. AMEIVA. 347 



3. Ameiva festiva. 



Cnemidophonis festivus, Lichtenst. Nomencl. Hept. Mus. Berol. 



p. 13. 

 Ameiva eutropia, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. G2. 



edwardsii, Bocourt, Ann. Sc. AMt. xvii. 1873, art. 17. 



festiva, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 260, pis. xx. a. tig. 10, 



XX. D. fig. 3, and xx. fig. 2 ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Amer., Bept. p. 24. 



Nostril between the two nasals ; upper head-shields large, 

 normal ; three large occipitals ; three (or four) supraoculars ; five 

 Bupraciliaries, second Terj- long ; loreal undivided ; seven or eight 

 upper labials. Six or seven lower labials, third longest ; chin- 

 shields, one anterior and four or five pairs ; a few very large median 

 gulars ; mesoptychium with a row of large shields. Dorsal granules 

 minute, becoming indistinctly keeled towards the posterior part of 

 the body. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal series, those of the 

 outer series considerably smaller than the others ; twenty-eight 

 transverse series, counting from the granules of the collar. Three 

 large, rounded anal plates, anterior largest, arranged in a triangle. 

 One row of large bi-achials and one of antebrachials (the latter 

 double near the articulation of the arm), continuous with each 

 other; one row of rather large postbrachials. Three rows of large 

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

 tibial plates. Eighteen to twenty femoral pores. Digits strongly 

 serrated. Caudal scales keeled, very strongly above and on the 

 sides. Olive-green above, with a more or less distinct festooned 

 light green band along the middle of the back, commencing on the 

 head and extending on the tail, bordered laterally with black ; a 

 deep black lateral band, beginning from the tip of the snout, pass- 

 ing through the eye, bordered above and below by a light line ; 

 lower surfaces greenish. 



millim. 

 From end of snout 



to vent 112 



Fore limb 44 



Hind limb 95 



Central America, Guatemala to Panama. 

 a-h. (S , & ligr. Vera Paz (Lower Forests). O. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Ameiva imdulata. 



Aniinva inululatus, Graif, Cat. p. 20. 



Cneniidophorii.s undulatiis, ]]'ic(jm. Hop. Mex. p. 27. 



Ameiva imdulata, A. Diim. Cat. M6th. Rept. p. 113; Cope, Proc. 

 Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 62 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. l\54, 

 pi. XX. A. tig. 7, and xx. fig. 1 ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 22. 



