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slightly pointed posteriorly. Olive above, with a broad lighter 
dark-edged median band from the occiput to the base of the tail; a 
few rather indistinct round light spots on the flanks ; temples and 
sides of neck lapis-blue; lower surfaces pale green, bluish on the 
sides and on the throat. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 320 From end of snout to 
Heady ice ware ca 3 24 fore limb ...... 35 
Width of head .... 0 15 From end of snout to 
From end of snout to VEDE 2 cw tar trices 100 
interparietal plate 16°5 Fore limb ........ 38 
Width at posterior Hind limb... .... 68 
corners of supra- Path 3:4 yee as 220 
ocular region.... 10 
Old Providence Island, Colombia. 
a. Q. Old Providence Island. W. B. Espeut, Esq. [P.]. 
3. Cnemidophorus lemniscatus. 
Cnemidophorus lemniscatus, Gray, Cat. p. 21. 
—— scutata, Gray, lc. 
Lacerta lemniscata, Daud. Rept. iii. p. 175, pl. xxxvi. fig. 1. 
—— ceeruleocephala, Wolf, Abbild. u. Beschr. merkw. nat. Gegenst. 
ii. p. 43, pl. xii. 
? Teius cyanomelas, Wied, Abbild. . 
Ameiva lineata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 278. : 
Cnemidophorus lemniscatus, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 128; Bocourt, Miss. 
Se. Mex., Rept. pl. xx. . fig. 2. 
Head short. Nostril between the two nasals. Parietals five ; 
supraoculars four ; five or six supraciliaries; no frenoorbital; 
anterior gular scales subequal, without enlarged medians ; mesopty- 
chium with three or four rows of enlarged scales, separated from the 
free edge of the collar by one or two rows of granules. Dorsal 
scales small, granular, smooth. Ventral plates in eight longi- 
tudinal and thirty to thirty-three transverse series. Generally three 
large preanal scales forming a triangle. An anterior row of large 
brachials, followed by several smaller ones, continuous with the 
postbrachials ; antebrachials more or less continuous with the 
brachials, in two rows, the inner largest, the outer frequently ex- 
tending only half down the inner; forearm entirely granular infe- 
riorly. Femorals in six to eight rows, one of which is large; tibials 
in three rows, outer very large. Femoral pores eighteen to twenty- 
four. Male with a spine ou each side of the vent. Caudal scales 
oblique, with straight keels, shortly pointed posteriorly, Olive 
above, with eight or nine whitish longitudinal lines on the body in 
the females, the space between the two upper on each side black or 
blackish ; limbs with round whitish spots, and sometimes a band of 
the same colour along the hinder side of the thighs; in males the 
