AMEIVA LIZARD. 



Lacerta cctrulea, albo nigroque variata, cauda longa verticillata, 



scvtis abdominis triginta. 

 Blue Lizard with black and white variegations, long verticil- 



lated tail, and thirty abdominal scuta. 

 Lacerta Ameiva. L. cauda verticillata longa, scutis abdominis 



triginti, coUarisubtus ruga duplici. Lin,_Syst. Nat, p. 362. 

 Great spotted Lizard. Edw. pi. 203. 

 Ameiva. Seb. 1. t. 88./. 1, 2. 



The Amt'iva is much allied to the Green Lizard 

 in its general appearance, but is not furnished 

 with the remarkable scaly collar by which that 

 species is distinguished ; having only a double 

 transverse crease or plait on the same part : the 

 head is also somewhat longer, and the snout more 

 taper in proportion : the scales with which the up- 

 per parts of the animal are covered are extremely 

 small, so as to be not very distinctly visible : those 

 of the abdomen consist of square plates, as in the 

 green lizard ; and beneath each tliigh is a range of 

 tubercles. In colour the Ameiva varies consider- 

 ably, but is commonly blue or blueish-green above, 

 with somewhat irregular variegations of black and 

 white, which are sometimes disposed in streaks, 

 and sometimes in spots, or patches ; and com-, 

 monly in such a manner as to leave several whit- 

 ish or pale-blue round spots scattered on different 

 parts of the body and limbs : the under parts are 

 dusky, with more or less of a blueish cast, and 

 often marked here and there with small whitish 

 spots. 



