6. CXEMIDOPHORTTS. 373 



6, $. 



milliiii. millim. 



Fore limb 31 22 



Hind limb 53 40 



Tail 113* 125 



Brazil. 



a. 2 • Brazil. Copenhagen Museum [P.]. 



(As typical of C. ht/ffomi.) 



b. c? . Brazil. Prof. C. Machado [P.]. 

 ^-^>f-ff- <S , $> & yg. Pernambuco. W. A. Forbes, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. (5' . Pernambuco. 



4^r-Cnemidophorus multilineatus. 

 Cnemidophorus multilineatus, Philippi, Arch. f. Nat. 1869, p. 41. 



Nostril anterior to nasal suture. Three parietals ; three supra- 

 oculars. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal and thirty-three trans- 

 verse series. Brachial plates in three rows, antebrachials in two. 

 Femoral pores twelve. Caudal scales keeled, obtusely pointed pos- 

 teriorly. Grey-brown above, with ten longitudinal whitish lines, 

 the lowermost twice as wade as the others, which are as wide as the 

 dark interspaces between them ; lower surfaces white. 



miUim. millim. 



Head to ear-opening . 11 Tail 98 



From snout to vent . . 45 



Mendoza. 



<=44r Cnemidophorus lacertoides. 



Cnemidophorus lacertinoides, Gray, Cat. p. 22. 

 Cnemidophorus lacertoides, Duin. ^- Bibr, v. p. 134 ; Bocourt, Miss. 



8c. Mex., Rept. pi. xx. c. fig. 10. 

 grandensis. Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xi. 18G9, p. 158. 



Head very short. Nostril anterior to nasal suture. Parietals 

 three ; supraoculars three or four ; supraciliaries five ; no freno- 

 orbital ; median gidar scales gradually enlarged ; mesoptychium with 

 two or three rows of shields, the largest considerably larger than 

 the median gulars, the posterior row separated from the edge of the 

 collar by a row of granules. Dorsal granules rather large, smooth. 

 Ventral plates in ten longitudinal and thirty-three to thirty-five 

 transverse scries. Praeanals irregular, sometimes three larger median 

 ones forming a triangle. Brachials in two or three rows, anterior 

 largest and continuous with the antebrachials ; postbrachials rather 

 large, more or less continuous with brachials ; antebrachials in two 

 rows, outer largest ; lower surface of fore arm uniformly granular. 

 Femoral plates in five or six rows, one of which is large ; tibials in 

 three rows, outer largest. Femoral pores ten to twelve. Male 



* Tail reproduced. 



