128 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



The tyije-series of scaber has been compared with the types of picturatus 

 from Jereniie, Haiti, and other recently taken examples also from Haiti. It 

 may be separated by several characters. The Haitian species evidently grows 

 much larger, in examples of similar size and the scales of the sides of the back 

 are also larger and more strongly keeled. In picturatus too the shoulders (in 

 the female) usually, if not always, bear a conspicuous spectacle-marking and 

 the ground-colour is reddish instead of bluish. In general appearance they 

 are very different but as is so often the case with related species of Sphaero- 

 dactylus it is very difficult to describe the various separating characters without 

 over-emphasizing their individual importance. 



The species evidently occurs in the Sierra de Jatibonico where Brown 

 found it in 1918 and in the Sierra de San Juan de los Perros to the north of the 

 Sierra de Jatibonico but still in sight of the main range in the western part 

 of the Province of Camaguey. The senior author found six specimens all in 

 deep woods imder stones or decajdng vegetation. The sexual dichromatism 

 in this species and picturatus does not seem to have been previously emphasized, 

 but is very striking. This is the species which Gundlach (Erpet. Cubana, 1880, 

 p. 61) called S. fantasticus and which he said he found only at La Fermina near 

 Bemba, now Jovellanos in the Province of Matanzas. For evidence that fan- 

 tasticus is confined to the island of Guadeloupe see Barbour, (Proc. Biol. soc. 

 Wash., 1915, 28, p. 72). 



Iguanidae. 



22. Chamaeleolis chamaeleontides (Dumeril & Bibron). 

 Plate 14, fig. 2, 3. 



Chipojo; Camaleon bianco; Cavialeon ceniciente; Chipojo bianco; Chipojo 

 pardo, &c. 



Diagnosis: — A large gray arboreal lizard; the head with an elevated 

 casque posteriorly; the whole body covered with flat, soft scales of very unequal 

 size. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,759. Cuba: Oriente; Jiguani, Los Negros, 

 Spring of 1913. Thomas Barbour. 



Head large, twice as long as broad; raised posteriorly in a casque-like 

 manner; upper surface of head concave, covered with inany rough tubercles, 

 largest on the canthus rostraUs ; nostril near the tip of the snout ; eye aperture 

 small, ear aperture also small, vertically oval, a small dermal process above it. 



