52 ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



of the suborbital ; scales striate, in thirty rows, sixty-six 

 from chin to vent. Tail one and one-half times the length 



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of body and head. 



Olive, bronzed ; nearly uniform brownish posteriorly ; 

 anteriorly with an irregular and broken band of brown 

 from snout to shoulder ; arm and neck to flank with dark- 

 edged small spots of white ; dark edges on the scales form 

 obliquely transverse streaks on the back ; dark lateral 

 edges of the ventrals form longitudinal lines of brown 

 from chin to tail. 



St. Lucia. 



MABUIA DOMINICANA, sp. n. 



Supranasals separate ; parietals in contact ; nuchals one 

 pair ; four supraorbitals ; four labials in front of the sub- 

 orbital, sometimes five ; scales rugose, in thirty to thirty- 

 two rows, sixty-eight to seventy-two from chin to vent. 

 Tail about one and two-thirds times as long as head and 

 body. 



Brownish-olive, bronzed ; a dark band from snout to 

 hip, edged above by a paler one and below by a white line 

 that becomes indistinct backward ; white beneath. For- 

 ward on young specimens the pale bands are white, and 

 at the inner edge of each, on the back, there is a series of 

 brown spots. 



Dominica. 



MABUIA MABOUIA, sp. D. & B. 



Supranasals separate ; parietals in contact ; nuchals one 

 pair ; three supraorbitals ; four labials in front of the sub- 

 orbital, sometimes five ; scales with faint striae, in twen- 

 ty-eight to thirty rows, sixty-three to sixty-five from chin 

 to vent. 



St. Pierre and Ft. de France, Martinique. 



