. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 73.—Anieiva lineolata lineolata: a, Top of head; h, chin and throat; c, side of head; d, dorsal granules; e, preanal and femoral region. No. 59208, from Thomazeau, Haiti. Two and one-half times natural size. variable than is usually the case among Ameivas. The scalation of the head is practically the same in all the specimens, except in No. 77953, where the excessive enlargement of the first superciliary has prevented the contact of the first preocular and the loreal that takes place in the other examples. The fourth
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 73.—Anieiva lineolata lineolata: a, Top of head; h, chin and throat; c, side of head; d, dorsal granules; e, preanal and femoral region. No. 59208, from Thomazeau, Haiti. Two and one-half times natural size. variable than is usually the case among Ameivas. The scalation of the head is practically the same in all the specimens, except in No. 77953, where the excessive enlargement of the first superciliary has prevented the contact of the first preocular and the loreal that takes place in the other examples. The fourth supra- ocular is sometimes completely separated by granular scales from the occipital bordering the median one. This is not, however, a character of much significance. Body scalation is quite constant, there being 8 transverse rows in every case, while the longitudinal rows are 32 to 34. The tail has 17 to 19 plates in the fifteenth verticil. Coloration is as constant as scale arrangement; there are 8 black stripes on the neck and 11 on the sacrum in all specimens. The two examples from Cul-de-Sac Plain have tails dark below and above; in the two from Thomazeau the tails are light below. Relationships.—Ameiva lineolata, as well as A. beatensis, appears to be related to A. wetmorei of Puerto Rico. All three species have the first supraocular in contact with the loreal, a character not met with in other Ameivas with oblique supracaudal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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