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tion, although lacking part of its tail. Mr. R. M. Grey has since sent the 

 M. C. Z. a fine adult female from Soledad, near Cienfuegos, so that a topotype 

 recently taken could also be compared with the type. The species is not un- 

 common about Guane and Luis Lazo and on the Island of Pines (Barbour). 

 In the Island of Pines especially, it seems to frequent the trunks of Royal Palms, 

 with the colour of which it blends beautifully. At Guane we found it principally 

 in the thick "manigua" or scrub generally upon white or gray rocks. 



26. Anolis isolepis Cope. 



Plate 7, fig. 2. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A very small, compressed, short limbed, thickset Anolis, 

 cross banded with dark mauve upon a very light mauve-ground. Entirely 

 covered above and below with tiny uniform scales. Dewlap apricot-yellow; 

 head without frontal ridges. 



Description: — Adult? cf M. C. Z. 8,514. Cuba: Oriente; Jiguani, Los 

 Negros, (High Sierra Maestra), 1913. Thomas Barbour. 



No frontal ridges, top of head covered with plate-like scales with many 

 parallel striae; all head-scales striate, none carinate; only three or four rather 

 large scales between the nostrils; supraocular semicircles separated by but 

 one row of large striate scales; supraocular discs ill defined, the whole supra- 

 ocular area covered with plate-like scales of varying size and hardly distinguish- 

 able from the semicircles; canthus rostraUs composed of three or four scales, 

 the anterior largest, projecting backward to form a short supraorbital ridge; 

 loreal rows, three; subocular semicircles of rather large keeled scales, one behind 

 and below the eye large, semicircles broadly in contact with the supralabials ; 

 eight or nine smooth supralabials, the suture between the seventh and eighth 

 below the centre of the eye; occipital not much enlarged, about the size of the 

 ear opening and similar in character to the surrounding scales; temporals 

 rather large, flat and polygonal; scales of back, sides, and belly all veiy small, 

 the belly-scales and the dorsals a little smaller than those on the sides, belly- 

 scales perfectly smooth and slightly imbricate; scales upon anterior aspects 

 of the limbs not enlarged nor imbricating; body stout, compressed; no nuchal 

 nor dorsal fold ; digits of hind Umb short ; the adpressed hind limb reaches but 

 very slightly beyond the axilla ; digital expansions very Uttle developed, about 



