148 IGUANID®. 
the shoulder or between the latter and the ear; hinder side of 
thighs uniformly granulate. Male with two to four anal pores. 
Tail once and a fourth to once and a half as long as head and body ; 
caudal scales (except the basal.ones) smaller than dorsals. Females 
and young pale brownish above, with darker and lighter spots 
sometimes forming undulated cross bands on the body, limbs, and 
tail; male variegated pale olive and blackish; a black spot or 
vertical bar in front of the shoulder. Lower surfaces whitish in 
the female, greenish in the male; throat usually spotted or marbled 
with blackish. 
Total length .......... 223 millim. 
Head's gx ye aa saes ee yp 23 5 
Width of head ........ i eee 
BOGS eiaieest nah a's clade eee rh ae 
Fore limb ........... 34. —C«y, 
Hind limb...... ..... 538i, 
MPA. csp tre ahieg 8.5 gg8s 130, 
Chili; Atacama. 
a-c. 3. Coquimbo, Dr. Cunningham [C.]. 
d-e. 3 Q. Coquimbo. Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 
f. Yg. Coquimbo. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 
g. Her. Chili. J. E. Gray, Esq. [P.]. (Type 
of L. tnconsprcuus. ) 
h. Her. J. Chili. 
t. Her. 9. —-? 
11. Liolemus magellanicus. 
Proctotretus magellanicus, Hombr. & Jacg. in Dumont d’Urv. Voy. 
Péle Sud, Rept. pl. ii. fig. 2; A. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 75, and 
Arch, Mus, viii. p. 548. 
Nostril lateral. Upper head-scales moderate, convex, smooth; a 
small azygos frontal, separated from the interparietal by a pair of 
fronto-parietals; interparietal as large as or a little smaller than 
the parietals; a serics of three or four enlarged supraoculars; a 
single series of scales between the labials and the infraorbitals ; 
temporal scales keeled; ear-opening small, with one or two small 
projecting scales in front. Sides of neck irregularly folded; a 
small curved antehumeral fold; the scales pointed, imbricate, 
smaller than those on the upper surface; two or three larger 
pointed scules project in front of the arm. Dorsal scales moderate, 
elongate rhomboidal, very strongly keeled, ending in a short spine; 
scales on the flanks as large as the dorsals; ventrals nearly as large, 
but rounded and smooth; forty to forty-four scales round the middle 
of the body. ‘The adpressed hind limb seldom reaches the axil; 
digits very short ; hinder side of thighs uniformly granulate. Male 
with three to five anal pores. Tail not or but slightly longer than 
head and body; caudal scales nearly as large as dorsals, Brownish 
or olive above, with four or five light yellowish or greenish streaks, 
