1. GERRHONOTUS. 271 
jecting scales above the ear pale yellow; lower surfaces greenish 
yellow, throat and breast black-dotted. 
millim, millim 
Total length ...... 145 Fore limb ........ 15 
Head 24564208604 14 Hind-limb........ 19 
Width of head .... 10 Tat) aesdeave ne aieatacs 91 
Body waearedes oe 40 
Argueta, W. Guatemala. 
6. Gerrhonotus fimbriatus. 
Gerrhonotus (Abronia) auritus (non Cope), Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 
Rept. p. 337, pl. xxi. fiy. 2, & xxia. fig. 7. 
Barissia fimbriata, Cope, Proc. dm. Philos, Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 171. 
Head-shields slightly rugose ; four pairs of shields between the 
rostral and the frontal; nasal separated from the rostral; two small 
superposed postnasals ; two loreals, second largest ; five large inner 
and three small outer supraoculars; nine upper labials ; a series of 
long pointed projecting scales above the ear. Sides of neck with 
granular scales. Lateral fold pretty well marked though not very 
deep, commencing in advance of the arm. Dorsal scales obtusely 
keeled, in fourteen longitudinal and thirty transverse series; ventrals 
smaller, in fourteen longitudinal series. Tail cylindrical, a little 
depressed at the base, one third longer than head and body. 
Greenish grey above, usually with angular brown cross bands edged 
posteriorly with black; the projecting scales above the ear yellow; 
lower surfaces yellow, nearly all the ventral scales with a brown 
dot. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 287 Fore limb........ 27 
FGA, ocx we eats 22 Hind limb........ 35 
Width of head .... 17 Pail seutewwencka ats 177 
OGY. p20 cs asks 88 
Vera Paz, Guatemala. 
7. Gerrhonotus auritus. 
Gerrhonotus auritus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1868, p. 806. 
Distinguished from the preceding in having three pairs of shields 
between the rostral and the frontal instead of four. Dorsal scales 
strongly but finely keeled, in sixteeen longitudinal and twenty-six 
transverse series. Pea-green, more or less shaded with yellow ; the 
rugosities of the scales everywhere black; blackish-green shades 
form indistinct V’s directed backwards on the middle of the back ; 
eyelids and auricular process yellow; below yellowish, with dirty 
green shades. 
From snout to yent 125 millim. 
Vera Paz. 
