352 TEIID^. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 286 From end of snout 



Head 28 to vent 116 



Width of head 17 Fore limb 39 



From end of snout Hind limb 77 



to fore limb 42 Tail (reproduced) . . 170 



St Thomas, "W. Indies ; Colombia ; Venezuela. 



a. cf . Venezuela. 



10. Ameiva surinamensis. 



Ameiva surinamensis, Gray, Cat. p. 18. 



guttata, Gray, I. c. 



Lacerta ameiva, Linn. S. N. i. p. 362. 

 Seps surinamensis, Laur. Syn. Hept. p. 59. 



zeylanicus, Laur. I. c. 



Lacerta litter.ata, Daud. Rept. iii. p. 106. 



graphica, Daud. I. c. p. 112. 



gutturosa, Daud. I. c. p. 119. 



Tejus ameiva, 3Icrr. Tent. p. 61 ; Wied, Ahhild, Nat. Bras. ; Spix, 



Spec. Nov. Laccrt. Bras. p. 21, pi. xxiii. 



lateristriga, Spix, I. c. p. 22, pi. xxiv. fig. 1. 



tritseniatus, Spix, I. c. p. 22, pi. xxiv. tig. 2. 



Ameiva vulgaris, Lichtenst. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 91 ; Dum. ^ 



Bibr. v. p. 100 ; Guichen. in CasfeJn. Amer. Sud, Bept. p. 32 ; 



BeinJi. 8,- Liltlc. Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 230. 



maculata, Gi-ay, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 277. 



Cnemidophorus prajsignis, Baird ^ Gir. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, 



p. 129 ; Girard, in Gillis, U.S. Nav. Astron. Exped. ii. p. 227, 



pi. xxxviii. 

 Ameiva lata, Coj)e, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 65. 

 praesiguis, Coj^e, I. c. p. 67 j Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. 



p. 265, pi. XX. B. fig. 9. 

 surinamensis, Cojje, I. c. p. 67 ; Bocourt, I. c. fig. 10 ; Cope, 



P)-oc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 276 ; Gii)it/i. Biol. C.-Am., 



Rept. p. 22, pi. xix. 



petersii, Coiie, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 99. 



pleurotaenia, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, pp. 398, 652. 



Cnemidophorus maculatus, Fischer, Verh. Naturiv. Ver. Hamh. (2) 



iii. 1879, p. 95, pi. iv. 



Nostril between the two nasals ; five occipitals ; four supra- 

 oculars ; sis or seven supraciliaries ; loreal undivided ; six to eight 

 upper labials. Five or six lower labials ; chin-shields, one anterior 

 and four to six pairs ; gular granules enlarged on a band across the 

 throat ; mesoptychium with slightly enlarged scales, about the size 

 of the largest gulars. Dorsal granules small, smooth. Ventral 

 plates in ten or twelve longitudinal rows, the outer small; thirty to 

 thirty-three transverse rows. Prseanal plates irregular, in two rows 

 or forming a triangle. Two or three rows of brachial plates, those 

 of the anterior row largest, and generally continuous with the ante- 

 brachials ; latter composed of one row of very large plates, and one 

 or two of much smaller ones ; postbrachials small. Six to eight 



