ON REPTILES COLLECTED NEAR GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR. 93 



ular toward the edge of the collar. Dorsal granules small, 

 uniform. Ventral plates in ten longitudinal and about 

 thirty-four transverse series. Five large plates forming 

 a triangle, from the vent 2 -j- 2 -}- 1, at each side of which 

 tfitere is a series of five smaller ones. Three or four rows 

 of brachials, anterior largest and continuous with the 

 largest, posterior, of the two rows of antebrachials. Eight 

 to ten rows of femorals, two or three of which are large ; 

 tibials in three rows, outer largest. Femoral pores twenty 

 to twenty-one on each side. Male without anal spines. 

 Caudal scales slightly oblique, carinate, subtruncate pos- 

 teriorly. Length of body, 4.25, of tail, 7.75 inches. 



Back olive brown, tinted with red anteriorly; upper 

 surface of body and limbs and sides of head thickly sprin- 

 kled with small rounded spots of yellowish or white, ap- 

 parently arranged in both longitudinal and transverse 

 series ; top of head lighter brownish, uniform ; a series of 

 spots from ear to rostral on the labials ; lower surface olive, 

 reddish on chest and folds, yellowish under legs, tail and 

 hinder parts of abdomen. A faintly indicated light streak 

 extends from the supraciliaries back above the hips. 



Hob. San Francisco de Posorja. 

 AMEIVA EDRACANTHA Boc. 



A small posterior, fourth, supraocular is present in each 

 case. Supraciliaries five to six. Granules scarcely in- 

 tervening between fronto-parietal and supraocular. Pores 

 twelve to thirteen. Throat of male red-tinted. Males 

 with six large and several smaller spines in each group at 

 the sides of the preanals. 



Sab. Posorja. 

 IGUANA TUBERCULATA Laur. 

 Secured at Posorja. 



