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is almost always present. It was first taken by Charles Wright at the Cafetal 

 Monte Verde in the Sierra de Yateras, and rediscovered there; it has also been 

 collected at Monte Libano, at Bayate near Guantanamo and at La Maya 

 (Ramsden), and seems to be entirely confined to eastern Oriente. Curiously 

 enough it is found most frequently in the coffee groves of the damp mountain 

 forests. A few specimens, however, have been secured in lowlands about three 

 miles S. E. of Guantanamo City and upon Guasima trees at the San Carlos 

 sugar plantation. It is a slow moving, rather chunky, thickset AnoUs, not 

 depressed Uke loysiana and very different in appearance from any other in Cuba. 

 The character of the head-scales recalls the condition in loysiana, but the tail 

 is entirely different, much longer and differently formed, there are no spme-like 

 projecting scales as in that species, and the dewlap is very much larger. 



34. Anolis spectrum Peters. 



Plate 7, fig. 5. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — An excessively long and slender Anohs, head nearly three 

 times as long as broad; grayish or greenish with a conspicuous white spot on 

 the elbows. 



Description: — Head nearly three times as long as broad, longer than the 

 tibia; forehead concave; upper head-scales smooth; scales of the supraorbital 

 semicircles large, separated by one series of scales; three or four enlarged, keeled 

 supraocular scales, in contact with the supraorbitals; occipital nearly as large 

 as the ear opening, separated from the supraorbitals by one or two series of 

 scales; canthus rostraUs feebly marked; loreal rows, four; eight supralabials; 

 ear opening moderately large, roimdish; gular appendage small; gular scales 

 keeled; body compressed; no nuchal nor dorsal fold; six or eight longitudinal 

 series of large, hexagonal, keeled dorsal scales, which are broader than long, 

 and at least twice as large, as the ventrals; lateral scales very small, granular; 

 ventral scales keeled; the adpressed hind limb reaches between the ear and the 

 eye; tail round or slightly compressed, covered with large strongly keeled 

 scales, the keels forming continuous lines; its length more than twice that of 

 head and body (after Boulenger). 



Colour (alcohoUc specimen) : — Y^ellowish gray or metalUc green above, the 

 sides of the body brown; a sharply defined white spot at the elbow. 



