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the same way. Many details of the cephaUc sqnamation of antiquae recall 

 those of A. cristatellus, but the tail, of course, is very different there 

 being no " fin " in this species while the scales below the eyes and between 

 the nostrils are also very different. It is widely separated from A.ferreus 

 Cope from Guadeloupe, with which it has been associated when both were 

 called A . leachii. 



The method of description which I have used is based on Stejneger's, 

 the only one which is sufficiently detailed unless the species described is 

 compared directly with some widely known, and common valid species. 

 It is my hope at some future time to rediscuss all of the Antillean species 

 of Anolis giving figures and full descriptions, but material is still not avail- 

 able from several islands. 



Anolis marmoratus Dumeril & Bibron. 



This was another of the species said to have been collected at Martin- 

 ique by Plee. Garman, although he collected an enormous series of 

 Anolis from Martinique did not find the species there. He decided, how- 

 ever, that the specimens collected by Richardson from Desirade were 

 referable to it. This opinion is, of course, but a guess since the types in 

 Paris have not been examined. It is nevertheless not improbable that 

 A. marmoratus is confined to Desirade, as A. asper is to Marie Galante, 

 and A . ferreus to Guadeloupe. Desirade is a French Island and it seems 

 likely that Plee confined his collecting to these after leaving Porto Rico. 

 It is possible that the vessel on which he journeyed touched at the French 

 Islands only. Garman's course in assigning A. cepedii to Martinique 

 was justified since Lacepede distinctly states * that the example upon 

 which his description and remarks are based were sent to Paris from 

 Martinique. Some of the subsequent writers such as Merrem, who in 

 1820 gave the species the name cepedii, simply stated that it came from 

 the Antilles and at different times it has been confused with various other 

 races. The name cepedii may be restricted, however, to what is appar- 

 ently the only species found on Martinique. 



Mr. Noble secured four Anoles; three are adults, which seem to differ 

 constantly from their near neighbors on Guadeloupe. They came from 

 Terre d'en Haut, I^s Saintes, one of two small islands lying at some 

 distance south of the southwest extremity of Guadeloupe. These lizards 

 are distantly related to the Anoles of Dominica and to those of Marie 

 Galante and Desirade. The species may be known as 



Anolis terrae=altae sp. nov. 



Type, an adult, M. C. Z. No. 10,627, from Terre d'en Haut, Isles des 

 Saintes, Guadeloupe, Fr. W. I. From the collection of G. K. Noble 

 made during the summer of 1914. 



This species is closely related to Anolis ferreus of Guadeloupe. It may 



be distinguished by the perfectly smooth ventrals which in specimens of 



ferreus of the same size show a distinct tendency toward weak keels. The 



supraorbital semicircles are much more extensively in contact (sometimes 



• Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip. 2, 1788, p. 120. 



