1894.] NATURAL, SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, 433 



Total length, 123 mm.; do. to vent, 43 mm.; to line of auricular 

 meati, 14 mm.; of fore limb, 15 mm.; of hind limb, 27 mm.; of 

 hind foot, 12 mm. 



Liocephalus carinatus Gray. 



Scales in 46 rows; 5-6 supraoculars; 3 introfrontonasal scales. 



"Generally distributed throughout the Bahamas; this species is 

 especially abundant on Crooked Isl. , were Anoles are comparatively 

 uncommon. The larger vegetation is very sparse here and loose 

 piles of coral rock near the shores are overgrown by a comparatively 

 open bush or scrub. It is here that the species abounds, scurrying 

 about on the ground and only rarely climbing into bushes. They 

 are very inquisitive creatures and come close up to look at one, then 

 running back a yard or two, pause again, and raising themselves on 

 the fore-legs, look about with elevated heads, a strange admixture of 

 curiosity and timidity, ready to run again at the slightest alarm. 

 While in running the Anoles only slightly raise the tail from the 

 ground, and the Ameivre drag it straight out behind, this species 

 elevates the tail high over the back, where it forms, pig-like, a 

 spiral coil, which peculiarity has gained for them the name of curl- 

 tail lizards. This species hides among the rock crevices, and large 

 numbei's take advantage of the burrows of the land crab ( Gecarci- 

 nus) as places of concealment. Though active, they are easily 

 caught in the hand, or by means of a grass noose. Their tails part 

 very readily and one is frequently rewarded for his pains with only 

 that squirming member. Highly carnivorous and very voracious 

 they apparently do not pause even at cannibalism, as was illustrated 

 once when a detached tail fell from my hand to the ground, where 

 its movements attracted the attention of an individual of the same 

 species, -which ran down from the rocks fully twenty -five feet away, 

 picked up the tail and bore it off. A few minutes later it was seen 

 with the tip of the still squirming tail of its neighbor hanging from 

 between its teeth. On another occasion a warbler which was shot and 

 had fallen to the ground, was found guarded by a large curl-tail 

 which seemed about to attack it." 



Great Inagua. 

 Anolis moorei sp. nov. Plate XI, fig. 4. 



Characters those of a prevalent West Indian type, i.e., tail com- 

 pressed and with a larger median superior row of scales, and ab- 



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