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Ameiva thoracica. Cope. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Philadelphia 14 (1862), p. 64. 



Described by (Jope from New Providence, but afterwards recorded also from 

 Great Abaeo, Eleutliera, and Andros. I collected many specimens of this species 

 on New Providence and Andros, where it was very abundant, running on the 

 ground. In sandy places they always tried to get into small holes. 1 could not 

 find out whether they dig out these holes themselves. The species is called by the 

 natives » lion-lizard ». 



Cope states (op. cit. p. 64) that the female differs in having a narrow median 

 line on the back, but as far as I could find this line was- always present in both 

 sexes. According to Cope the lateral light bands are indistinct, but in living- 

 specimens they are, on the contrary, very distinct and yellow. 



Fam. Seineidae. 



Mahmja sloanii, Daudin? 

 Hist. Nat. Kept. Vol. 4 (1803) p. 287. 



According to Stejnegek (18) it is not impossible that the species Cope has 

 described from Turk's Isl. as M. cepedei and later on as M. agilis is M. sloanii. 



B. Snakes. 



Fam. Typhlopidae. 



Typhlops lumhricalis, L. 



Syst. Nat. 



Stejneoer writes (18) about a specimen from Abaco in the U. S. Nat. Mus.: 

 » deviates sligthly from the general type, which is found in nearly all the West 

 Indian Islands, but whether it represents a depauperate form of this species or 

 only an individual aberration cannot be determined from a single spécimen». He 

 does not mention the difference. About a specimen from Abaco, I do not know if 

 it is the same. Cope states (10, p. 437) that the muzzle is more pronounced than 

 in the usual form. I found in the Bahamas two specimens of this species, one in 

 New Providence, another at Mastic Point on Andros. I cannot find any structural 

 difference between them and the usual description of T. lumhricalis. 



Typhlops tenuis, Salvin. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 454. 



One .specimen collected at Mastic Point, Andros. It seems to agree in all 

 characters with T. tenuis, except having 22 scales round the body. 



