G, CNEMIDOPHORUS, 371 



rnesoptychial scales and the border of the collar. Adult with eight 

 longitudinal bands, the inferior lateral brown band extending to the 

 orbit ; femora pale spotted ; throat pale, breast plumbeous. 

 West Tohuantepec. 



Idr- Cnemidopfeorus deppiL 



Cueniidophorus deppii, Gray, Cat. p. 2'2. 



Cnemidophorus deppii, Wieffm. Herp. Mex. p. 28 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. 

 Ac. 1869, p. 63 ; Boconrt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 281, pi. xx. fig. 3, 

 and XX. c. lig. -5 ; Gibdh. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 27. 



? Cnemidophorus lineatissimus, Cojje, Proc. Ainer. Philos. Soc. xvii. 

 1877, p. 94. 



? Cnemidophorus lativittis, Cope, I. c. 



Head short. Nostril anterior to nasal suture. Parietals three 

 three supraoculars (seldom four) ; six supraciliaries ; no frenoor- 

 bital ; median gulars enlarged ; mesoptj'chial scales in three or four 

 rows of subequal size, scarcely larger than the largest gulars, 

 separated from the free edge of the collar by a row of granules. 

 Dorsal granules small, smooth. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal 

 and thirty-five transverse series. Three large praeanals, forming a 

 triangle. Brachial plates in three rows, continuous with the post- 

 brachials, anterior largest and continuous with the antebrachials ; 

 latter in two rows, outer largest ; lower surface of fore arm uniformly 

 granular. Femoral plates in six or seven rows, one of which is 

 large ; tibial plates in two rows, outer largest. Femoral pores 

 seventeen. Male without anal spines. Caudal scales oblique, 

 with straight keels, slightly pointed posteriorly. Olive above, with 

 nine longitudinal white lines ; a white line along the hinder side of 

 the thigh; lower sui'faccs whitish. 



millim. aiilliin. 



Total length 216 From end of snout to fore 



Head 19 limb 28 



Width of head 11 From end of snout to vent 76 



From end of snout to inter- Fore limb 28 



parietal plate 13 Hind limb 54 



Width at posterior corners Tail 140 



of supraocular regions . . 8 



Central America ; Venezuela, 

 a. J . Caracas. 



11. Cnemidophorus hyperythrus. 



Cnemidophorus hyperythrus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 103. 

 Verticaria hypeiytlira, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos, Soc. xi. 1869, 

 p. 1-58. 



Head rather narrow, snout long. Nostril anterior to nasal suture. 

 Frontoparietal plates united ; supraoculars four, rarely three ; pos- 

 terior gular scales small, abruptly separated from the anterior, 



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