150 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



Dimensions: — Total length 150 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 40 mm . 



Vent to tip of tail 110 mm. 



Width of head 4 . 5 mm. 



Fore leg 13 mm. 



Hind leg 28 mm. 



No one except Gundlach himself has ever taken thie species. We have 

 searched for it in vain. Gundlach remarks that he found it only in "monte," 

 as a'certain sort of lowland forest is called in Cuba, in the jurisdictions of Ma- 

 tanzas and Cardenas. He adds that the species is rare. We believe the only 

 specimen preserved in America is the imperfect one, in the Museo Gvmdlach 

 of the Institute de Segunda Ensenanza in Havana. It is a strange looking 

 wraith of a lizard, so slender that it resembles a fine twig as closely as the well- 

 known walking sticks (phasmids) do. In 1918 we again examined the type as 

 carefully, as possible, at a distance of perhaps sixteen or eighteen inches, for 

 the case is kept permanently sealed at Gundlach's most earnest request. We 

 conclude that the species may probably be a synonym of Anolis alutaceus, but 

 had best be kept separate until the types can be reexamined. 



35. Anolis cyanopletjrus Cope. 

 Plate 4, fig. 1; Plate 6, fig. 6; Plate 8, fig. 1-3. 



Diagnosis: — A small slender greenish Anolis, having long low almost 

 parallel frontal ridges, a few rows of enlarged scales in a Ught streak along the 

 middle of the back, and a very long tail without distinct verticils. 



Description: — Adult? 9 Brit. Mus. N. H. 65.6.12.18. Cuba: Juan 

 Gundlach. 



Top of head with two nearly parallel and closely approximated frontal 

 ridges, which are not greatly developed and border a shallow frontal trough; 

 head-scales very feebly to rather distinctly keeled; about eight scales in a row 

 between the nostrils; supraoculars semicircles separated by one or two scales; 

 occipital large but somewhat smaller than ear opening, separated from the 

 supraocular semicircles by but two rows of scales; supraocular disc consisting 

 of three or fom* greatly enlarged irregularly shaped polygonal scales and several 

 smaller ones, separated from the semicircles by a row of stiU smaller scales; 

 canthus rostrahs consisting of about five or six narrow elongate scales, con- 

 tinued posteriorly, these form a superciliary ridge of elongate scales which 



