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even to such smooth surfaces as window panes. At Port Morant 

 they were especially abundant in the cocoanut groves concealing 

 themselves, when alarmed, beneath the matting which envelops the 

 bases of the leaf petioles. Their food, in the vicinity of Kingston, 

 is largely ants and wood ticks." 



Anolis flabellatus sp. nov. Plate XII, fig. 7. 



Allied to A. grahamii but with the abdominal scales smooth, the 

 supraorbital scales continued as a distinct series of larger scales to 

 the canthus rostralis; the scales of the muzzle not keeled. The 

 occipital scale is about as large as the auditory meatus, and it is 

 separated from the supraorbitals by one or two rows of scales instead 

 of four or five as in the A. grahamii. Supraorbitals separated by 

 one row of scales ; supraorbitals, 13-14 keeled, and of various 

 sizes, becoming smaller externally. The frontal ridges are not 

 elevated as in the A. lineatopus Gray, but the front is flat, nearly as 

 in A. grahamii. Three scales separate the anterior supraorbital 

 from the canthus rostralis, which itself is marked by five scales. 

 Seven rows on the muzzle between the canthus ; ten rows in the A. 

 grahamii. Twenty- one lamellae under third and fourth phalanges 

 of posterior fourth toe. The tibia is shorter than from the muzzle 

 to the ear, and the extended hind foot reaches to the eye. The 

 dorsal and lateral scales are of equal size. The fan is large, extend- 

 ing posterior to the axillae in males. 



Color above brown, lighter on the sides, and marbled on both 

 regions with darker brown. Below pale with darker reticulations on 

 the chin. Color of fan not dark. 



Length to vent, 46 mm. ; to ear, 13.5; do. of fore limb, 21 mm.; 

 of hind limb, 36 mm. ; of hind foot, 15 mm. 



This species need only be compared with the A. grahamii, to 

 which it is allied. Besides the characters mentioned, it is smaller, 

 and is of a different color; the A. grahamii being more or less green, 

 and not tending to brown. It resembles more strongly the A. 

 grahamii conspersus of Garman, which is rather intermediate be- 

 tween the A. flabellatus and the A. grahamii. The A. g. con- 

 spersus is as large as the latter, and is peculiar in coloration. 



From Port Morant and Port Lucea; abundant. 



"A slender, pretty species found on the north shore of Jamaica at 

 Port Antonio and Port Lucea. It is not very common, and is found 



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