°U U, ' Q . 8 fr 7 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX IUSTITUTE. Vol. 19. Salem: Jan., Feb., March, 1887. Nos. 1-2-3. ON THE WEST INDIAN TEIIDiE IN THE MU-SEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. BY SAMUEL GASMAN. The greater part of the collection on which this notice is based was gathered for Professor Alexander Agassiz by the writer. The balance was purchased by the Mu-seum from Messrs. F. Lagois, C. S. Cazabon, Dr. D. F. Wemland and others. As far as possible series wore ob-tained, the better to enable one to fix upon the character-istics of the varieties of a species inhabiting several of the islands, or those of closely allied species from the same or different localities. In the result the number of Bpecies has been augmented, instead of reduced as was expected. TUPINAMBIS NIGROPUNOTATU8 SjHX, 1825. Specimens from Trinidad apparently have the scales Bomewhat larger and the femoral pores in greater num-ber. The pores range from fourteen to seventcon. The species is called "Matt" by the nativi BSSES INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XIX 1 (1)
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