156 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



Colour (in life): — Dark rich brown abnost black, when at rest; when 

 disturbed may become light brown with darker dorsal rhombs; lower surfaces 

 paler; dewlap pure white. (Specimens from various localities). 



Dimensions: — Total length . 147 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 57 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 90 mm. 



Width of head 10.5 mm. 



Fore leg 13 . 5 mm. 



Hind leg 45 nun. 



This Mzard is the most common and widely distributed of all the Cuban 

 species which are strictly confined to a woodland habitat. We have foimd it 

 in all of the provinces and in greater or less abundance in all the woodland areas 

 examined. It is evidently most at home on the tree-trunks of some sunUt 

 jimgle glade where insects abound. In such spots the males may often be seen 

 bobbing their heads up and down as they flash the pm-e white of their widely 

 expanding dewlap. When shot or otherwise wounded their tail has a pecuHar 

 way of convulsively rolling up, which almost suggests a prehensile usage, such 

 as we have never observed. Cope founded this species upon a specimen in the 

 British Museum which had only "West Indies" as data. Until the type can 

 be examined there will remaia some doubt as to the real status of homolechis, 

 for Cope's description lea,ves much to be desired and even Boulenger's was pub- 

 Ushed before anyone realized how many were the species of Anolis and how 

 similar many of them are to each other. 



38. Anolis rubribarbus, sp. nov. 

 Plate 9, fig. 2, 3. 

 Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A rather stockily built Anolis, having in the male a high 

 fin-Uke crest upon the tail, smooth ventral scales and a dewlap light red with a 

 yellow margin and crossed obliquely by three bars of a much deeper red. 



Description: — Type. Adult c? M. C. Z. 11,941. Cuba: Oriente; El 

 Puerto de Cananova, near Sagua de Tanamo, May, 1916. V. J. Rodriguez y 

 Verrier. 



Top of head with two rather short and but slightly bowed ridges, enclosing 

 a distinctly depressed area; ridges at their greatest width from each other 



