146 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



Since the discovery of the type in February, 1912, no additional specimens 

 have been reported. The Uzard was found resting upon the thatched roof of 

 a peasant's house several niiles north of Herradiua. 



32. Anolis loysiana (Cocteau). 



Plate 3, fig. 4; Plate 7, fig. 4. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A small depressed grayish Uzard, the sides of whose body 

 and tail are closely beset wdth spine-like projecting scales; colour resembles 

 closely a gray lichen. 



Description: '■ — Adult M. Z. C. 8,511. Cuba: Oriente; Jiguani, Los Negros. 

 Thomas Barbour. 



Top of head with two ridges which first converge to enclose a shallow de- 

 pressed area paved with five or six flat polygonal scales, then the ridges extend 

 forward parallel and rather ill defined to near the tip of the snout ; head-scales 

 in general flat or sUghtly rugose'; about five or six scales between the nostrils; 

 supraocular semicircles in contact for at least half their extent ; occipital about 

 twice as large as ear opening, separated anteriorly from the semicircles by one 

 large irregularly pentagonal scale; supraocular disc consisting of four trans- 

 verse scales much longer than wide, separated from the semicircles by a double 

 row of minute scales; canthus rostraUs consisting of five or six strongly keeled 

 scales diminishing in size anteriorly; loreal rows three; subocular semicircles 

 composed of rather rough enlarged scales which are widely in contact with the 

 supralabials ; six or seven smooth supralabials, the sixth lying under the centre 

 of the eye; temporals flat, polygonal, pavement-Uke, smallest in the centre 

 but nowhere granular, no supratemporal line; two middorsal rows very sUghtly 

 enlarged, not keeled; rest of back and sides covered with small flat scales, 

 except for scattered protuberances covered with several scales, the apical one 

 of which is strongly enlarged, conical and projecting; on the limbs and tail 

 these projecting spine-Uke scales also occur abundantly; ventral scales small, 

 flat and sUghtly imbricating; gular appendage small; the adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the shoulder; digital expansions well developed; about twenty-four 

 lamellae under phalanges II and III of the fourth toe; tail cyUndrical, about 

 as long as head and body ; with an irregular dorsal series of enlarged imbricating 

 scales, many scattered spine-like scales and no trace of verticils. 



