114 CLASS IIEPTILIA. 



is also more pyramidal than in our lizards, and tliey 

 liave not, like them, an osseous plate over the orbit.* 



Under the name of lacerta Anwiva, many species 

 have been confounded, some of which are still rather 

 difficult to distinguish. The most extended ( Teyus 

 Ameiva, Spix, xxiii. Pr. Max. de Wied. v. lib.) is a 

 foot and more in length, and has the back more or 

 less picked out and spotted with black and vertical 

 ranges of white ocellae, bordered with black on the 

 flanks. 



There is another {Teyus cyaneus^ Merr. Lacep. 

 I. xxxi. Seb. II. c. v. 2), pretty nearly of the same 

 size, bluish, with round white spots, scattered over 

 the flanks, and sometimes on the body. 



The young individuals of these ameiva and of 

 some others, have blackish stripes on the sides of 

 the back : we must be careful not to multiply the 

 species.t 



* The name Ameiva, according to Marcgrave, designates a lizard with 

 forked tail, which can only be an accidental circumstance. Edwards 

 having had an individual of the above division, in which this accident was 

 observable, applied the name of it to the entire species. Marcgrave com- 

 pares this individual to his Taragidra, which, according to his description, 

 would rather appear to be a Polychrus. 



•j- Such appears to me to be the Teyus Ocellifer, Spix, xxv. 



Add. Am. Litterata, Daud. Lib. I. Ixxxiii. — Am, Ccendeocepliala/iA. Seb, 

 xci. 3 : — Am. Lateristriga, Cuv. Seb. L. xc. 7. ; — Am. Lemniscata, {Lac. 

 Lemnisc. Gm.) Seb. I. xcii 4. — Teius Tritaniatus, Spix, xxi. 2. — T. Cya- 

 nomelas, Pr. Max. 5th book. 



I know not by what confusion of synonimy, Daudin has placed the Am. 

 Litterata in Germany, It belongs to America, like all the rest. The 

 Am. Graphique of Daud. Seb. L. Ixxxv. 2, 4, is the M. Bengalenms : his 

 Am. Cargus, Lib. L. Ixxxv. .5, is the Cepedian Monitor : his Goitreux, Seb. 



