352 TEIID. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 286 From end of snout 
A a6 earn ee eran 28 to vent........ 116 
Width of head .... 17 + Forelimb........ 39 
From end of snout Hindlimb........ 7 
to fore limb .... 42 Tail (reproduced) .. 170 
St Thomas, W. Indies ; Colombia; Venezuela. 
ao. Venezuela, 
10. Ameiva surinamensis. 
Ameiva surinamensis, Gray, Cat. p. 18. 
guttata, Gray, 1. e. 
Lacerta ameiva, Linn. S. N. i. p. 362. 
Seps surinamensis, Laur, Syn. Rept. p. 59. 
zeylanicus, Laur. 1. e. 
Lacerta litterata, Daud. Rept. iii. p. 106. 
graphica, Daud. l.c. p. 112. 
gutturosa, Daud. 1. ce. p. 119. 
Tejus ameiva, Merr, Tent. p. 61; Wied, Adbild. Nat. Bras. ; Spiz, 
Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras. p. 21, pl. xxiii. 
lateristriga, Spir, 1. c, p. 22, pl. xxiv. fig. 1. 
triteeniatus, Spir, lc. p. 22, pl. xxiv. fig. 2. 
Ameiva vulgaris, Lichtenst. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 91; Dum. & 
Bibr. v. p. 100; Gutchen. in Casteln. Amér. Sud, Rept. p. 82; 
Reinh. § Liitk, Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 230. 
maculata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 277. 
Cnemidophorus presignis, Baird § Gur. Proc. Ae. Philad. 1852, 
p. 129; Gerard, in Gallis, U.S. Nav, Astron. Exped. ii, p. 227, 
pl. xxxvill. 
Ameiva leta, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 65. 
presignis, Cope, lc. p. 67; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. 
p. 265, pl. xx. B. fig. 9. 
—— surinamensis, Cope, le. p. 67; Bocourt, lc. fig. 10; Cope, 
Proce. Amer. Philos, Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 276; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., 
Rept. p. 22, pl. xix. 
petersii, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 99. 
pleuroteenia, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1871, pp. 898, 652. 
Cnemidophorus maculatus, Fischer, Verh, Naturw. Ver. Hamb. (2) 
iii. 1879, p. 95, pl. iv. 
Nostril between the two nasals; five occipitals; four supra- 
oculars ; six or seven supraciliaries ; loreal undivided ; six to eight 
upper labials. Five or six lower labials ; chin-shields, one anterior 
and four to six pairs; gular granules enlarged on a band across the 
throat; mesoptychinm with slightly enlarged scales, about the size 
of the Jargest gulars. Dorsal granules small, smooth. Ventral 
plates in ten or twelve longitudinal rows, the outer small; thirty to 
thirty-three transverse rows. Preeanal plates irregular, in two rows 
or forming a triangle. Two or three rows of brachial plates, those 
of the anterior row largest, and generally continuous with the ante- 
brachials ; latter composed of one row of very large plates, and one 
or two of much smaller ones; postbrachials small. Six to eight 
