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37. Anolis homolechis Cope. 



Plate 14, fig. 8. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A dark coloured, woodland Anolis, one of the few Cuban 

 species having, in the adults, a conspicuous fin-like crest upon the tail and the 

 only species having a pure, ivory-white dewlap. 



Description: — Adult cf M. C. Z. 8,575. Cuba: near Matanzas. Carlos 

 de la Torre. 



Top of head with two almost parallel ridges of keeled scales, extending 

 but half way to tip of snout and separated by first one then two rows of 

 keeled scales; head-scales all sharply keeled; about six scales in a row between 

 the nostrils; supraocular semicircles are formed by backward extensions of 

 frontal ridges, and are separated by one row of scales; occipital oval, much 

 smaller than ear opening, separated from the semicircles by two or three rows 

 of scales; supraocular disc much differentiated, composed of a number of vari- 

 ously enlarged, keeled scales, separated from the semicircles by one row of very 

 small scales; canthus rostraUs sharply defined, composed of four or five keeled 

 elongate scales; extending backward it forms a superciliary ridge which reaches 

 to over the posterior portion of the eye; loreal rows, four or five; subocular 

 semicircles distinct, sharply depressing the supralabials ; about ten smooth 

 supralabials, the suture between the seventh and eighth under the centre of 

 the eye; temporals fine and granular, a faintly indicated supratemporal Une; 

 dorsal and lateral scales minute and granular, two middorsal rows of granules 

 shghtly enlarged; ventrals large, smooth, cycloid, strongly imbricating; scales 

 of anterior aspects of fore and hind limbs enlarged, imbricating and strongly 

 keeled; body stout, no nuchal nor dorsal fold, limbs well developed, the ad- 

 pressed hind limb reaches the anterior border of the orbit ; digits much dilated, 

 about seventeen lamellae under phalanges II and III of the fourth toe; tail not 

 greatly elongated, very strongly compressed, surmounted by a highly developed 

 fin-like crest; the whole caudal squamation regularly divided by verticils, the 

 scales on the tail between the Umiting rows small, increasing in size on the fin 

 progressively upward, the fin surmounted by fine saw-Uke teeth thi-ee between 

 each verticil, the fourth enlarged and forming the upper scale of each limiting 

 row ; postanal scales very slightly if at all enlarged. 



