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centre of the eye; loreal rows, six; subocular semicircles of rather large, squarish 

 feebly keeled scales, scarcely in contact with supralabials, not more than two 

 scales in contact; nine smooth supralabials, the seventh under the centre of the 

 eye; temporals very minute, smallest in centre of temporal area; no supra- 

 temporal ridge; no enlarged dorsal scales; back and sides covered with very 

 small, flat, almost circular scales; ventrals larger, also rotund, non-imbricating; 

 a few rows of larger slightly imbricating scales on anterior aspects of Umbs; 

 scales on digits smooth; digits of hind limb moderately long, with well-developed 

 expansions; about twenty-five lamellae under phalanges II and III of fourth 

 toe; gular pouch rather well developed in the male, not in female; body not 

 compressed; no nuchal nor dorsal fold; the adpressed hind Umb reaches almost 

 to the nostril, tail long, slightly compressed; with verticils on the proximal 

 portion very sUghtly indicated, separated by about twelve or thirteen series 

 of scales; male with sUghtly enlarged postanal scales. 



Colour (in hfe) : — Ashy gray, a Ught streak along the side of the head, 

 several chevron-Uke bands across nape and back, the back and upper surface 

 of tail with varying dark cross-bands and blotches; Umbs faintly cross banded; 

 lower surfaces, whitish or greenish; dewlap hght greenish gray. 



Dimensions: — Total length 180 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 63 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 117 mm. 



Width of head 10.5 mm. 



Fore leg 31 mm. 



Hind leg 54 mm. 



The Coronel, as this hzard is called about Matanzas on account of its miU- 

 tary striping or chevron-Uke bands, is locally abundant. It is found only in 

 the vicinity of limestone cliffs and is usually seen crawUng about on the rocks 

 at the entrances of the caves so conamon in these regions. Only rarely is it 

 found on the trvmks of trees and then only on those which grow upon the para- 

 dones. About Matanzas A. lucius is particularly abundant, on account of 

 the great Umestone caves in the cUffs where the Yumuri River has gradually 

 cut its way dowTi to its present level. The local peasants beUeve that the 

 scattered calls which one hears at night coming from the cUffs of the Abra or 

 gorge of the Yumuri are made by the Coronel; in reaUty they are the call of an 

 Eleutherodactylus. Curiously m the Valley of Luis Lazo the same tinkly bell- 

 Uke calls are locally supposed to be made by the Iguana de la Sierra, a Leio- 



