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LEPIDOBLEPHARIS 



Key to the subspecies 



1. Mental bordered posteriorly by four or five 

 scales slightly larger than the throat 



granules fuqax 



Mental bordered posteriorly by three scales 



much larger than the throat granules 



sanctaemartae 



Clave de subespecies 



1. Mental bordeado posteriormente por cuatro o 

 cinco escamas un poco mayores que las 



escamas de la garganta fuqax 



Mental bordeado posteriormente por tres 

 escamas, mucho mayores que las escamas de 

 la garganta sanctaemartae 



Lep i doblephar i s sanctaemartae sanctaemartae (Ruthven) 



1528 Lep i doblephar is [ sanctae-martae j sanctae-martae — Ruthven, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. 



Mich., I5I: 2. 

 1568 Lep i doblephar is sanctaemartae sanctaemartae — Mechler, Rev. Suisse Zool., 75' 3^6, figs. 



21-28. 



Distribution: Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia. 



Lep i doblephar i s sanctaemartae fuqax Ruthven 



1528 Lepi doblephar is sanctae-martae fuqax Ruthven, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I5I: 2. 

 Type-locality: Barro Colorado Island, Gatun Lake, Panama. 



Distribution: Eastern Panama from Canal Zone to Sapo Mountains. 



LEPIDOBLEPHARIS XANTHOSTIGMA (Noble) 



1916 Lathroqecko xanthostiqma Noble. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 2'): 87. Type-locality: Zent, near 



Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, 

 1323 Lathroqecko microlepis Noble, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 88: 2. Type-locality: Rio Quesado, region 



of Rio Atrato, Colombia. 

 1928 Lepidoblepharis xanthost i qma — Ruthven. Occ, Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I5I: 2. 

 IS'iS Lepidoblepharis xanthost i gma — Taylor. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 38= 20, figs. 2-3. 



Distribution: Costa Rica to Colombia. 



Comment: Vanzolini, Arq. Zool. SSo Paulo, I7, I568, 3O, recognized L, microlepis Noble as a 

 valid species, but does not discuss or include L. xanthostiqma in his review of the South 

 American species. It is not clear to us whether he rejects previous synonymy of the two 

 species or not. 



