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bricating; scales of anterior aspects of fore and hind limbs strongly enlarged, 

 keeled and imbricate; body slender cylindrical or slightly compressed; no 

 nuchal nor dorsal fold; limbs very slender, the adpressed hind Umb reaching 

 to between the orbit and nostril; about seventeen lamellae under phalanges 

 II and III of the fourth toe; digital dilation very slight; tail round, very slender, 

 covered with rather large keeled and imbricate scales, no trace of verticils; no 

 enlarged postanal scales. 



Colour (in hfe) : — Varying shades of browm from Ught golden cinnamon 

 to deep umber, often a hght dorsal zone, this may or may not have within it a 

 dark series of dorsal spots; head with varying light and dark cross-bands and 

 longitudinal stripes; lower parts and dewlap (which is scarcely extensible) pale 

 brown. 



Dimensions: — Total length 120 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 35.5 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 84 . 5 mm. 



Width of head 4 . 6 mm. 



Fore limb 13 mm. 



Hind limb 28 nrni. 



Anolis alutaceus was another of the discoveries made by Charles Wright, 

 at the old Cafetal "Monte Verde" in the Sierra de Yateras near Guantanamo. 

 One of Wright's original specimens, a type, is now before us (M. C. Z. 10,932), 

 secured through the kind offices of Dr. Leonhard Stejneger by exchange from 

 the U. S. N. M. In the M. C. Z. there are other specimens from Madruga, 

 Cienfuegos, Mayajigua, Sierra de Cubitas, Monte Libano as well as from the 

 forests of the Sierra Maestra (Cafetal "El Alto" above Los Negros), where 

 the species was fairly abundant (de la Torre and Barbom-). In the collection 

 of the junior author there are many others from the mountain forests about 

 Guantanamo. This slender little lizard is by no means easy to find, imless 

 one happens to see it move. It is usually entirely confined to forested areas, 

 apparently more abundant in highland than in lowland forest but found in both. 

 One observed crossing the hot, white and dusty "calzada" between Madruga 

 and Aguacate at high noon crept leisurely across the burning Umestone road 

 and it was most surprising that so tiny a creature did not parch and blow away. 

 We have observed it feeding upon the ants which swarm along the twigs of so 

 many Cuban forest trees. In common with, we believe, all members of the 

 genus, this species lays a single oblong egg under a bit of half decayed bark. 

 One such egg was found near Baire with an ahnost ripe embryo (Barbour) . 



