5. AMEIVA. 347 
3. Ameiva festiva. 
Cnemidophorus festivus, Lichtenst. Nomencl. Rept. Mus. Berol. 
p. 18. 
Ameiva eutropia, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1862, p. 62. 
— edwardsii, Bocourt, Ann. Se. Nat. xvii. 1878, art. 17. 
festiva, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 260, pls. xx. a. fig. 10, 
xx. D. fig. 8, and xx. fig. 2; Giinth. Biol. C-Amer., Rept. p. 24. 
Nostril between the two nasals; upper head-shields large, 
normal; three large occipitals; three (or four) supraoculars; five 
supraciliaries, second very long; loreal undivided; seven or eight 
upper labials. Six or seven lower labials, third longest; chin- 
shields, one anterior and four or five pairs; a few very large median 
gulars; mesoptychium with a row of large shields. Dorsal granules 
minute, becoming indistinctly keeled towards the posterior part of 
the body. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal series, those of the 
outer series considerably smaller than the others; twenty-eight 
transverse series, counting from the granules of the collar. Three 
large, rounded anal plates, anterior largest, arranged in a triangle. 
One row of large brachials and one of antebrachials (the latter 
double near the articulation of the arm), continuous with each 
other; one row of rather large postbrachials. Three rows of large 
femoral plates, those of the median row smallest; two rows of large 
tibial plates. Eighteen to twenty femoral pores. Digits strongly 
serrated. Caudal scales keeled, very strongly above and on the 
sides. Olive-green above, with a more or less distinct festooned 
light green band along the middle of the back, commencing on the 
head and extending on the tail, bordered laterally with black; a 
deep black lateral band, beginning from the tip of the snout, pass- 
ing through the eye, bordered above and below by a light line; 
lower surfaces greenish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail in- From end of snout 
JUred)) ge siensars 302 to vent ........ 112 
i 35: 17 are ae 29 Fore limb........ 44 
Width of head .... 19 Hind limb........ 95 
From end of snout 
to forelimb .... 49 
Central America, Guatemala to Panama. 
a-b. 3, & her. Vera Paz (Lower Forests). O, Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 
4, Ameiva undulata. 
Ameiva undulatus, Gray, Cat. p. 20. 
Cnemidophorus undulatus, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 27. : 
Ameiva undulata, A. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p.113; Cope, Proce. 
Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 62; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 254, 
pl. xx. a. fig. 7, oa te fig. 1; Giinth. Biol. C-Am., Rept, p. 22. 
