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Celestus crusculus (Garman). * 



Diploglossus crusculus Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., 1887, 19, p. 22. 

 Diploglossus baker I Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1900, ser. 7, 6, p. 193. 



This, the Celestus with striate but uon-cariuate scales, is less common about 

 Mandeville, Jamaica, than the smooth -scaled C. impressus, and more abundant 

 than the keeled-scaled C. occiduus. With Garman's type from Kingston (M. C. Z., 

 No. 6051) before me, there is no doubt that I), baked Boulenger is identical. The 

 color of the type is now somewhat faded, but it is evident that originally it agreed 

 exactly with the color Boulenger has so accurately described. Six specimens which 

 I procured near Mandeville and three which Mr. Wight has sent in also agree 

 with Boulenger's description. In these fresh specimens the bellies of the males 

 are a brilliant salmon pink. The scale rows are variable in number ; records give 

 from 38 to 50. 



Celestus impressus Cope. 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, p. 127. 

 This is the most common member of the genus about Mandeville, Jamaica. I 

 obtained twenty-one specimens, and Mr. A. E. Wight two. The scales are smooth. 

 Cope's type was undoubtedly a dried and shrunken specimen. This accounts for 

 the " dorsals with a cross elevation and marginal depression making rows of pits." 

 The narrow brown bars, from eighteen to twenty in number, which are broken 

 and alternate at the median line, serve to distinguish this from the other two Jamai- 

 can species of Celestus. The type of Celestus maculatus (Garman) from Cayman 

 Brae (M. C. Z., No. 6231), is closely related to this species. It is, I think, un- 

 doubtedly distinct and can be distinguished by the broad dark lateral band running 

 through the eye along the side to the hind limb. The coloration of the twenty- 

 three Jamaican examples studied is typical and unvarying. 



Ameiva dorsalis Gray. 



Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1838, 1, p. 277. 

 Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, p. 74. 



Perhaps no lizard in Jamaica lias suffered more from the ravages of the mon- 

 goose than this one has. Dr. J. E. Duerden wrote in the Daily Gleaner of 1S96, 

 that it had been almost exterminated but was beginning to reappear more com- 

 monly near the town. Now, while this lizard is an especially shy one, it seems 

 fairly common in hot sunny pasture lots near the city of Kingston. It has prob- 

 ably grown more common as the mongoose has grown scarce, owing to the latter's 

 being fi-equently killed in thickly settled communities, where it is a great robber 

 of hen roosts. This lizard was reported by Gosse as very abundant. It is known 

 to the natives by the name of "ground lizard" in most localities where open 

 cleared laud occurs extensively. We did not succeed, however, in obtaining 

 specimens anywhere but about Kingston, where we took twelve. 



It is known only from Jamaica. 



