Some new South American cold-blooded vertebrates

Abstract

at the first Pan-American Scientific Congress, which was held in December in Santiago de Chile, was the real occasion of the trip.The larger part of the time, however, was utilized in making collections of the lower vertebrates and insects, to supplement the already very large collections from tropical America, which are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.Material was obtained from Petropolis, Brazil; several stations in the Argentine; north, central, and southern Chile; the highlands of Bolivia and of Peru, as well as the lower-lying coastal region of Peru;