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Bahaman Anoles. The species is most characteristic of the more 

 northerly islands; of those visited by us they are very abundant on 

 New Providence, fairly swarming on Eleuthera, and less common on 

 the islands south and east. We failed to find this species on Fortune 

 Isl. and Great Inagua. They are equally at home on the ground 

 and in trees, preferring to seek their food on the former. They are 

 very pretty, when raised high on the fore-legs, with head elevated, 

 and body in a quiver of excitement, they pause to detect the move- 

 ment of an insect, upon wdiich they spring with much agility, and 

 devour in an instant. Their principal food is ants, which they seek 

 along fences, by the roadside, among the trees, and in and about 

 houses. Like the other Anoles they are fond of sunning themselves 

 and lie on stones or fences with the legs stretched lazily along the 

 sides of the body. On the island of Eleuthera, where they are 

 known to the natives by the name of Iquana, they are fond of lying 

 on the branches of bushes overhanging the fresh- water ponds. Out- 

 side of the Bahamas A. sagrce was met with in Jamaica, where they 

 are particularly abundant on the north shore about Port Lucea. " 



Anolis distichus Cope. 



" Common on New Providence, and less so on Eleuthera. Their 

 habits in general resemble those of A. sagrce, but the species is 

 especially common on the ground in banana and sisal plantations." 



Anolis oligaspis sp. nov. Plate XI, fig. 5. 



Tail little compressed at the base (mostly lost), and with a larger 

 median dorsal row of scales. Scales minute, a few dorsal rows 

 scarcely larger ; ventrals much larger, smooth. Tibia about as long as 

 head to posterior border of orbit. Occipital plate oval, larger than 

 ear opening (transversely divided in the single specimen), separated 

 from supraorbitals by one row of scales. The supraorbitals are in 

 contact, and they are continued as a row of two large scales only be- 

 tween the anterior one which borders the orbit, and the scales of the 

 can thus rostralis. The first pair of these two large scales is separated 

 by a single row of small scales; the second is separated by three 

 rows, of which the median is the largest, and continues to between 

 the nares. Thus at the second large scales there are five rows of 

 scales across the muzzle between the canthal scales, of which the 

 lateral and median are larger than the other two. All scales of 

 muzzle without keels; a shallow basin between large rows. Canthal 



