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Show 1906.] IN MEXICAN LIZARDS. 353 on the lower back and rump, others in stripe 3, in the mid-field and upon the thighs. Ground-colour brown, with dark bars in fields I. and II. Specimen 99 mm. About 12 rows of small whitish spots on the lower back and rump &c. Neck and anterior half of trunk dusky, marbled with dark cross-bars. Specimens of 100-105 mm. Back dusky, on neck and shoulders with large dark spots or with dark cross-bars. All the stripes are dissolved into small white or yellow spots on the lower back, rump, and root of the tail; ground-colour warm re Idish-brown. Text-fig. 79. Cnemidophorus communis occidentalis and C. c. australis. A = C. communis occidentalis, from Tuxpan ; Field Mus. Nat. Hist. B=C. communis australis, 138 & 110 mm., from Cuicatlan ; Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Specimen 130 mm. Whole neck, shoulders, and mid-back uniformly dusky greenish; sides of back rich brown with many small whitish specks, which extend also over the lower back and rump. Legs and thighs above bluish, with many small spots. The throat is pale, partly with a pink tinge, especially in the largest specimen; collar white, mottled with blue. Chest and abdomen soon become mottled or chequered, each scale becoming dark blue or black, but retaining a whitish edge. The terminal half of the tail is red in all specimens. Twelve specimens collected by Dr. Meek near Cuicatlan. (Text-figs. 64 C; 65 E; 69 B, C.)-This is a station of the Mexican |