164 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Remarks: — No further discussion of this species is necessary in 

 view of its similarity to C. cormita. It may be added, however, that 

 Stejneger when writing his Herpetology of Porto Rico, suspected 

 the distinction between this species. He had, however, no Haitian 

 material for comparison and was further deterred by some notes which 

 Gunther (Trans. Zool. soc. Lond., 1882, 11, p. 218, pi. 44) published 

 regarding a specimen with no locality which died in the London Zoo 

 and to Stejneger it seemed unlikely that a specimen from Mona 

 would find its way alive to London. We believe that this specimen 

 really came from Mona Island, a possibility by no means so remote 

 as Stejneger seemed to think, especially when the rarity of the species 

 in Haiti is taken into account. It is not unlikely that the small 

 Haitian sailing vessels may even visit Mona purposely, to take 

 Iguanas for food. It is also not improbable that such individuals 

 may be carried alive to Haiti and thence one may have found its way 

 to London. {Cf. Stejneger's discussion of this specimen, Ann. rept. 

 U. S. N. M. for 1902, 1904, p. 671). 



Material examined. 



We have only seen Bowdish's specimens listed by Stejneger (loc^ 

 cit.). One of these is now in the M. C. Z., 11145, a paratype, figured. 



