BARBOUR AND NOBLE: LIZARDS OF THE GENUS AMEIVA. 427 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES. 
AMEIVA AUBERI Cocteau. 
Description:— Adult male; M. C. Z. 7277. Camaguéy, (Puerto 
Principe), Cuba; 1908; T. Barbour. 
Rostral forming a little more than a right angle behind; nostril 
on the posterior edge of the anterior nasal; anterior pair of nasals 
broadly in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal as long as wide in 
contact with the loreal; prefrontals broadly in contact; frontal in 
contact with the first and second supraocular; a pair of frontoparietals 
in contact with the third supraocular for nearly their entire length; 
five occipitals in a transverse row, the two in contact with the median, 
largest; seven supraciliaries; three supraoculars, the first separated 
from the loreal; two posterior supraoculars separated from the 
supraciliaries by a double row of granules; last supraocular separated 
from the outer occipitals by three rows of small scales; seven large 
supralabials; five large infralabials; between the infralabials and chin- 
shields a wedge of one to three rows of granules extending anteriorly 
to the first chin-shield; chin and throat covered with granules, an 
indistinct band of very slightly larger ones extending across the middle, 
the median ones forming an ill-defined central group of scarcely 
enlarged scales; on the area between the two throat folds several 
rows of large hexagonal scales; under side of the body with ten longi- 
tudinal and thirty-five transverse rows of plates; preanal plates, two 
anterior median, and three posterior marginal ones; on the lower arm 
a double row of antebrachials, one much wider than the other, both 
decreasing in width towards the elbow joint; on the upper arm a 
similar but narrower single row of brachiais continuous with the ante- 
brachials; on the posterior side near the elbow a small group of en- 
larged postbrachials; under side of the thighs covered with six or 
seven series of hexagonal plates of which the outer series is considerably 
larger than the others; thirteen and fourteen femoral pores; on the 
under side of the tibia two rows of plates those of the outer row 
enormously enlarged; upper side of the wrist with a regular series of 
transverse plates corresponding to the inner and outer metatarsals; 
outer toe extending approximately as far as the inner; tail covered 
with straight scales with keels; about thirty-five scales in the fifteenth 
ring from the base. 
Coloration: — Ground color of dorsal surface olivaceous brown, 
slightly reddish anteriorly, grayer on the tail; three poorly defined 
narrow stripes of a lighter color on the back; the two lateral stripes 
