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Vol. XXIX, pp. 215-220 December 16, 1916 



PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES 

 AND AMPHIBIANS. 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 



Since I published in these proceedings a short paper entitled 

 " Recent Notes on West Indian Reptiles and Amphibians," * 

 material from this region has kept accumulating in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. As the appearance of my Herpetology 

 of the West Indies is still more of a hope than an accomplish- 

 ment I have decided to put these additional observations upon 

 record now. 



Anolis albipalpebralis sp. nov. 



Type an adult male, M. C. Z. No. 11954, from Grand Turk, Turks 

 Islands, B. W. I., collected by Louis A. Mowbray during the summer of 

 1916. 



There has long been a question as to what was the identity of the com- 

 mon Anolis of Turks Island. Stejneger cited the record simply as "Anolis 

 sp. ?" in his Batrachians and Land Reptiles of the Bahamas (in Shattuck, 

 Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 334). As a matter of fact it appears to be a 

 recent derivative from Anolis cristatellus of Porto Rico and the Virgin 

 Islands. It is more closely related to this species than it is to A. monensis 

 Stejneger which is itself but slightly differentiated. 



Similar to A. cristatellus but diflering in having the ventrals weakly 

 but perfectly distinctly keeled and the scales of the supraorbital discs 

 almost perfectly smooth instead of keeled or tubercular. Compared with 

 specimens from Porto Rico the head is distinctly narrower and flatter but 

 in neither of these respects does it differ conspicuously from Stejneger' s 

 figure, Nos. 92 and 93 of the Herpetology of Porto Rico (Washington, 



1904). 



• Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.. 28, 1915. pp, 71-78. 



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