VCM.. XVI, PP. 129-132 NOVEMBER 12, 1503 



PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW SPECIES OF LARGE IGUANA FROM THE 

 BAHAMA ISLANDS, 



BY LEONHARD STEJNEGER, 



[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



Mr. J. H, Riley, of the United States National Museum, 

 while attached to the Bahama Expedition of the Baltimore Geo 

 graphical Society, during the summer of 1903, collected a good 

 series of a large iguana belonging to the genus Oychira on 

 Watlings Island. He also secured a fine specimen of ^Cyclura 

 bceolopha Oope on Andros Island, the type locality of this well- 

 defined species. Two specimens collected by Mr. William 

 Palmer in 1900 on the Isle of Pines, which I have regarded as 

 typical of Qyclwra cyclura^ have furnished material for com 

 parison, with the result that the Watlings Island specimens are 

 here described as a new species. It will be noted that -a large 

 iguana from Cat Island has been recorded under the name of the 

 Cuban species (Cope, Proc, U. S, Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 437), but 

 in view of the close proximity of Cat Island to Watlings, it is 

 probably nearer to the iguana described below, if not actually 

 identical with it, than to the form inhabiting Cuba, The third 

 species peculiar to the Bahamas is Cyclura carinata from Turk's 

 Island, the most peculiar of them all. 



35 PROC. BIOI* Soc. WASH, VOL XVI, 1903. 



