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ANOLIUS CAROLINENSIS.— CMt;ier. 



Plate VIII 



Characters. Head flattened, and greatly elongated, covered with minute 

 scales; nostrils distant from the end of the snout; tail very long, verticillate; a 

 distensible fold of skin, or dewlap, under the throat; fingers and toes slender, 

 elongated, distinct. 



SrNONTMES. Lacerta viridis Carolinensis, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. Ixv. 

 Anolis bullaris, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. iv. p. 69. 

 Green Carolina Lizard, Shaiu, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 243. 

 Anolius Carolinensis, Cuvier, Reg. An., torn. ii. p. 50. 

 Anolius bullaris, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. vi. p. 16. 

 Dactyloa bullaris, JVugler, Natiirlich. Syst. der Amphib., p. 148. 

 Green Lizard, or Chameleon, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is much elongated, flattened, and canaliculated between 

 the orbits, full and rounded at the temples; the snout is rather obtuse; the nostrils 

 are placed at some distance behind its extremity, and open upwards and outAvards. 

 The head is mostly covered with small, nearly equal sized, polygonal plates, with 

 a few larger ones, eight or nine in number, disposed in a semicircle on the 

 superior orbital margins, which are somewhat prominent; those on the occipital 

 region are smallest of all, and surround a single plate of larger size. The mouth 

 is large; the upper jaw is armed with fifty or sixty teeth, and the lower with forty- 

 five or fifty; in both jaws the six or eight posterior teeth are the larger; the labial 

 plates are small, quadrilateral, and sixteen or eighteen in number. 



