. Breviora. . Figure 3. Dorsal scales. Above: A. onca. Below: A. annectens Hole- type. mal. Dewlap color, however, cannot safely be inferred from specimens long preserved and this might be important. A good description of color in life by William E. Duellman of onca from 3 km SW of Cumana in Sucre, Venezuela, follows: "Dorsum light brown mottled with gray, gray brown and black. Venter creamy white, lightly flecked with grayish brown. Tail medium brown above, cream below. Dorsolateral motthng on WED 28685 forms more or less distinct paravertebral blotches which are gray centrally and outli
. Breviora. . Figure 3. Dorsal scales. Above: A. onca. Below: A. annectens Hole- type. mal. Dewlap color, however, cannot safely be inferred from specimens long preserved and this might be important. A good description of color in life by William E. Duellman of onca from 3 km SW of Cumana in Sucre, Venezuela, follows: "Dorsum light brown mottled with gray, gray brown and black. Venter creamy white, lightly flecked with grayish brown. Tail medium brown above, cream below. Dorsolateral motthng on WED 28685 forms more or less distinct paravertebral blotches which are gray centrally and outlined in black. Dewlap bright greenish ochre centrally, becoming orange peripherally, the whole dewlap reticulated with bright orange brown and bearing white scales. Iris bronze. Lining of throat bluish ; [WED field notes.] Distribution: The locality for A. annectens is, most unfortu- nately, inexact. It is not known whether Osgood collected the. 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 Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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