

AMEIVA LIZARD. 



Lacerta cctrulea, albo nigroque variata, cauda longa verticiUata, 



scutis abdominis triginta. 

 Blue Lizard with black and white variegations, long verticil- 



lated tail, and thirty abdominal scuta. 

 Lacerta Ameiva. L. cauda rerticillata longa, scutis abdomirn* 



triginti, collari subtus ruga duplici. Lin, Syst. Sat. p. 362. 

 Great spotted Lizard. Edu\ pi. 203. 

 Ameiva. Seb, 1. t. 88. f. 1, 2. 



THE Ameiva is much allied to the Green Lizard 

 in its general appearance, but is not furnished 

 with the remarkable scaly collar by which that 

 species is distinguished ; having only a double 

 transverse crease or plait on the same part : the 

 head is also somewhat longer, and the snout more 

 taper in proportion : the scales with which the up- 

 per parts of the animal are covered are extremelv 

 small, so as to be not very distinctly visible : those 

 of the abdomen consist of square plates, as in the 

 green lizard ; and beneath each thigh is a range of 

 tubercles. In colour the Ameiva varies consider- 

 ably, but is commonly blue or blueish-green above, 

 with somewhat irregular variegations of black and 

 white, which are sometimes disposed in streaks, 

 and sometimes in spots, or patches; and com- 

 monly in such a manner as to leave several whit- 

 ish or pale-blue round spots scattered on different 

 parts of the body and limbs : the under parts are 

 dusky, with more or less of a blueish cast, and 

 often marked here and there with small whitish 

 spots. 



