. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TEIID LIZARDS OF THE GEXUS CNEMIDOPHORUS 41 sni)riioc'ul;ir graiuilos usually not extcndiiif:; forward i)ast the ante- rior border of the fourth supraocular; frontoparietals normally 2; parietals 5; anterior and posterior gulars usuallj^ poorly differen- tiated, rather small, often uniform, but sometimes with somewhat enlar<2:ed central and medio-lateral patches of frranules; mesopty- chials rather small to moderate; these uniform or largest centrally, in 2-5 rows, posterior not always largest; postmesoptychial granules minute, often over
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TEIID LIZARDS OF THE GEXUS CNEMIDOPHORUS 41 sni)riioc'ul;ir graiuilos usually not extcndiiif:; forward i)ast the ante- rior border of the fourth supraocular; frontoparietals normally 2; parietals 5; anterior and posterior gulars usuallj^ poorly differen- tiated, rather small, often uniform, but sometimes with somewhat enlar<2:ed central and medio-lateral patches of frranules; mesopty- chials rather small to moderate; these uniform or largest centrally, in 2-5 rows, posterior not always largest; postmesoptychial granules minute, often overlapping the posterior edge of the second gular fold. Body elongate, ventral plates in 8 longitudinal and 30-37 trans- verse rows; anal spurs often well developed; dorsal granules small; limbs Avell developed; brachials 2-8; antebrachials 1-2; brachials usually more or less continuous with antebrachials at a point of. Figure 9.—Map showing locality recobds of Cxemidophorus lemxiscatus nigricolor contact; postantebrachials granular or slightlj^ enlarged; femorals 5-7; tibials 2-4; femoral pores 24—30; tail elongate, tapering, with moderately oblique, rather pointed caudal scales, these weakly keeled on the sides and somewhat irregular in arrangement with respect to the longitudinal; ventral caudals usually, although not always, smooth or very weakly keeled. The coloration is moderately variable. Lower surfaces white, yellowish, gray, slate, greenish, bluish or black; lower flanks often darker than median ventral region; tail white to blackish below, sometimes brownisli, and above, darker but nearly unicolor; dorsal surface without well defined stripes, and usually without even traces of stripes; middorsal region unicolor, and either darker or lighter than the flanks, but not showing as a cons[)i('Uous, widened bluish or grayish blue band as in certain large individuals of Jcinnlscatux; 230G—31 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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