68 ANOLIUS CAROLINENSIS. 



The eyes are rather small, but very brilliant, with a dusky pupil and an iris of 

 burnished gold; the external meatus of the ear is contracted and small — the 

 tympanum is visible, though deeply placed. Under the throat is a dewlap, or fold 

 of skin, that can be distended at will. 



The body is elongated, but hardly cylindrical, the abdomen being broader and 

 the spine narrower, giving it at times a triquetrous form, and is covered with scales 

 so extremely minute, as to give the whole surface a granulated appearance. 

 When examined with a glass, they appear nearly of equal size, hexagonal, or 

 rounded, not carinated, except over the thighs, but rather more elevated in their 

 centre. There is neither cervical, dorsal or caudal crest. The abdomen is 

 covered with ovalo-hexagonal plates, slightly imbricated and carinated. The 

 extremities are covered above with small, imbricated and carinated scales, and 

 with plates similar to those on the back below. 



The anterior extremities are rounded; the skin on the under surface of the ante- 

 penultimate phalanges of the four external fingers is spread out into an oval disk, 

 with transverse scales, by means of which the animal can attach itself to smooth 

 surfaces; the fingers are five in number, each provided with a small, short, very 

 delicate and curved nail. The posterior extremities are longer, and terminate in 

 five toes, provided with the same number of nails; the ante-penultimate phalanges 

 are arranged in the same manner as in the fingers. The tail is cylindrical, very 

 long, and covered with large rhomboidal and verticillated scales. 



Colour. The whole superior surface of the head, body, tail and extremities is 

 of a beautiful golden-green; the abdomen, greenish-white; the sac under the throat 

 becomes vermilion when inflated; when flaccid it is white, with occasional lines 

 and spots of red. The inferior surface of the extremities is white, clouded with 

 green; the superior surface of the fingers and toes is brown, and the inferior 

 surface of the same colour. We observe frequently a black band on the temple, 

 and a row of small black dots along the superior surface of the tail, as repre- 



