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enlarged and imbricating; on digits imbricating and smooth; body depressed; 

 a very feeble nuchal, no dorsal fold; limbs long, the adpressed hind hmb reach- 

 ing to between the large eye and the nostrils; digits of hind Umb long, expansions 

 well developed, about nineteen lamellae under phalanges II and III of the 

 fom-th toe; tail long, almost round, covered with small keeled scales; verticils 

 on the proximal portion only very feebly indicated, separated by about seven 

 series of scales; postanal plates very sUghtly enlarged. 



Colour (in hfe) : — Ashy gray or grayish brown, irregularly mottled with 

 darker gray or brown ; a white crescentic line under eye ; Umbs without cross- 

 bars; dewlap greenish white. 



Dimensions: — Total length 161 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 54 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 107 mm. 



Width of head 8 mm. 



Fore leg 25 mm. 



Hind leg 56 mm. 



On the throat of the female of both this species and A . lucius there are brown 

 longitudinal Unes. 



Anolis argenteolus is another species which is very partial to the gray Ume- 

 stone cliffs, where, hke lucius, its colour affords remarkable protection. It is, 

 however, much more often than with that species found upon the trunks of 

 trees or upon the sides of buildings but usually only when they are near out- 

 croppings of limestone rock. The one chosen for description was taken upon 

 one of the "Spanish laurel" trees in the Plaza opposite the Cathedral in the 

 city of Santiago. The species is confined to Oriente Province, so far as now 

 known, but unhke lucius it has a considerable range. We have taken it in the 

 mountains about Guantanamo; it is also found at San Luis, at Los Negros and 

 Bueycito in the SieiTa Maestra, at Cabo Cruz and Behg (Barbour), and at 

 various points near Baracoa (de la Torre and V. J. Rodriguez). Thus it 

 ranges widely m Oriente but has not been taken outside of the Provmce. Strange 

 to say it is not found in the city of Guantanamo although it is very common 

 in the cemetery and on the back yard walls of Santiago. Tliis is the only species 

 of Anohs which is found so near civilization and in the deep forest as well. 

 Anolis porcatus and A. sagrei apparently occur now only in cultivated or aban- 

 doned fields. 



Boulenger (Cat. hzards Brit, mus., 1885, 2, p. 45) confused this species 



