BARBOUR AND NOBLE: LIZARDS OF THE GENUS AMEIVA. 4577 
AMEIVA AQUILINA Garman. 
‘Description: — Adult male; Type M. C. Z. 6088. Grenada, B. W. 
I.; 1879; S. Garman. 
Rostral forming a trifle less than a right angle behind; nostril 
between the two nasals; anterior pair of nasals broadly in contact 
behind rostral; frontonasal longer than wide in broad contact with 
the loreal; prefrontals broadly in contact; frontal in contact with the 
first two supraoculars, with the second for its entire length; a pair 
of frontoparietals separated from the third supraocular by one or 
two rows of granules; five subequal occipitals, the three median ones 
in a transverse line, the other two beyond these and slightly posterior; 
seven supraciliaries; four supraoculars, the first separated from the 
loreal; the three posterior supraoculars separated from the supracili- 
aries by a single row of granules ending anteriorly in a large granule, 
last supraocular separated from the outer occipitals by two or three 
rows of granules; five large supralabials; six infralabials; between 
infralabial and chin-shields a wedge of one or two rows of granules and 
scales extending anteriorly half the length of the second chin-shield; 
chin and throat covered with minute granules, a band of distinctly 
larger ones extending across the middle, the median scales largest and 
forming an ill-defined group; on the area between the two throat folds 
three or four transverse rows of scales all about the same size; under 
side of the body with fourteen longitudinal and thirty-three transverse 
rows of plates, the outer very small; preanal plates irregular, placed 
more or less in a series of transverse rows, a median group of four scales 
largest; on the lower arm three rows of antebrachials, outer row con- 
siderably larger than the two inner which are somewhat irregular, the 
series extending to the brachials; on the upper arm three rows of 
brachials the median row slightly the largest; on the posterior side near 
the elbow joint a small group of postbrachials; under side of thighs 
covered with four rows distally, with fifteen proximally, outer row 
just above the knee formed of wider scales; eighteen and nineteen 
femoral pores; on the under side of the tibia five regular rows of plates, 
the second and third scale proximally of the outer row largest; upper 
side of the wrist with a regular series of transverse plates correspond- 
ing to the inner and outer metatarsals; outer toe extending a little 
further than the inner; tail covered with straight, keeled scales; 
about forty-one scales in the fifteenth ring from the base. 
Coloration:— Dorsal surface olive-brown more bluish on the sides 
of the head and appendages; on either side of the body a broad 
rufous brown band, the edges of which are somewhat undulating, ex- 
tending part way down the tail; sides of the body with four or five 
longitudinal rows of pale blue or milky spots; ventral surface straw- 
