r: 



AMEIVA, 359 



brachials and one or two rows of small ones ; postbracliials very 

 small. Pemoral plates numerous ; tlu'(!e I'ows of tibial shields, outer 

 very large. Femoral pores thirty to thirty-three (or thirty-six, Cope). 

 Caudal scales keeled. General colour black ; lower surfaces glaucous 

 green. 



uiillim. milliin. 



Total length 320 From end of snout 



Head 25 to vent 110 



Width of head .... 15 Fore limb 40 



From end of snout Hind limb 70 



to fore limb .... 41 Tail 210 



Sombrero and Anguilla, West Indies. 



a. 5 . Sombrero. F, G. Sawkios, Esq. [P.]. 



h-c. $. Auguilla. . W. J. Cooper, Esq. [P.]. 



19. Ameiva punctata. 



Ameiva major, Gray, Cat. p. 17. 



punctata. Gray, I. c. 



Ameiva punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 277, 



undulata, Gray, I. c. 



major, Dum. tS,- L'ibr. v. p. 117, pi. lii. ; Bocowt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 



Rept. p. 246, pi. XX. B. figs. 7 & 8. 

 erythrops. Cope, Pruc. Ac. Philad. 1871, p. 221. 



Nostril in the posterior part of the anterior nasal ; five occipitals ; 

 four supraoculars ; eight to ten supraciliarics ; loreal undivided ; 

 seven upper labials ; five or six lower labials ; chin-shields, one 

 anterior and six pairs ; median gulars slightly enlarged ; enlarged 

 scales on the mesoptychium a little larger than the largest gulars. 

 Dorsal granides small, smooth. Ventral plates in fourteen or sixteen 

 longitudinal series, those of the outer row very .small ; thirty-five or 

 thirty-six transverse rows, counting from the collar. Proeanal plates 

 small. iS'o regular brachial plates ; one row of large transverse 

 antebrachials and two rows of small ones ; postbrachials very small. 

 Femoral plates numerous ; three or four rows of tibial shields, outer 

 very large. Digits feebly serrated, outer toe extending a little 

 further than inner. Femoral pores thirty-four to thirty-seven. 

 Caudal scales keeled. Back olive, with black reticulations or wavy 

 cross lines ; flanks and belly blackish green ; head lighter, reddish 

 above, whitish beneath. (Young with longitudinal lighter bands 

 on the sides of the body.) 



ruillim. millim. 



Total length 418 350 



Head 33 27 



Width of head 21 16 



From end of snout to fore limb . . 56 45 



From end of snout to vent 138 120 



Fore limb 52 43 



Hind limb *JG 80 



Tail 280 230 



