Vol. XXIX, pp. 19-20 January 25, 1916 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW ANOLIS FROM CUBA. 

 BY T. BARBOUR AND C. T. RAMSDEN. 



Not long ago Doctor Stejneger kindly loaned us for study a 

 number of specimens of Anolis collected by Messrs. Palmer and 

 Riley in Cuba during the year 1900. He is preparing a report 

 upon this collection for publication and noted that it con- 

 tained this new species. Nevertheless since we also had the 

 species in manuscript he has generously allowed us to describe 

 it. For this courtesy we owe him our sincere thanks. This 

 pretty little lizard may be called 



Anolis mestrei sp. nov. • 



Type, M. C. Z. No. 11,285 from the Valley of Luis Lazo, Western Pinar 

 del Rio, Cuba, collected in March, 1915, by T. Barbour. Paratypes 

 M. C. Z. No. 11,286, from the same locality, also U. S. Nat. Mas. Nos. 

 26,731, 32, 33 from San Diego de los Banos and No. 27,344 from "El 

 Guamd," a finca near the city of Pinar del Rio, all four specimens from 

 the Palmer and Riley collection. 



Description of the type. — Head with two slightly diverging ridges on the 

 frontal region ; forehead concave ; all the head scales rather feebly keeled; 

 seen from in front rostral about the same height as the mentals; six 

 elongate scales between the nostrils ; a single series of scales separating 

 the supraocular semicircles; occipital slightly smaller than ear opening, 

 separated from the supraocular semicircles by about four rows of scales, 

 which are very much larger than the dorsal granules and slightly larger 

 than the scales which bound the occipital posteriorly; supraorbital disc 

 composed of about six large and a few additional smaller but somewhat 

 enlarged scales; these are all very feebly keeled and arranged in grada- 

 tion, the largest scales nearest the scales of the semicircles, which they 

 match in size; there are about 3 series of enlarged scutes in the discs; 

 disc separated from semicircles by one row of granules ; three or four 

 scales between the superciliaries and the supraorbital semicircles 

 bounding the area of the supraorbital granules anteriorly; canthus 

 rostralis sharp, consisting of five or six elongate shields which are 



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