158 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



singularly homogeneous squamation as well as the very peculiar colouration 

 of the dewlap serve at once to distinguish it from any other species. Beside 

 securing a small series near Cananova, a single adult male was found out on the 

 Farallones of Cabo Maisl itself. We know nothing of its wider distribution 

 nor of its habits. 



39.  Anolis quadriocellifer, sp. nov. 



Plate 10, fig. 1. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A rather thickset AnoUs, bearing a well-developed fin upon 

 the tail and having upon each side a large very dark brown blotch upon a fight 

 brown ground, the blotch completely surrounded by more or less confluent 

 small pure white dots. 



Description: — Tyve. Adult cf M. C. Z. 11,867. Cuba: Cabo San An- 

 tonio, Ensenada de Caj6n, 1914. Carlos de la Torre. 



Top of head with two very short parallel ridges ; separated by two or three 

 rows of keeled scales; head-scales all sharply keeled; about eight scales in a row 

 between the nostrils; supraocular semicircles separated by a partly single, 

 partly double row of keeled scales; occipital irregular almost round, much 

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

 scales; canthus rostralis distinct of three or four elongate scales, continued 

 backward as a superciliary crest to over centre of eye; loreal rows, four; sub- 

 ocular semicircles short, composed of a few long, keeled scales, broadly in con- 

 tact with supralabials ; seven smooth supralabials, sixth imder eye; temporals 

 granular, the central group very minute, a series of sUghtly enlarged scale 

 forming a faintly defined supratemporal line; scales of back and sides granular, 

 the two middorsal rows sfightly enlarged; ventrals large, round, smooth, and 

 strongly imbricate; scales of anterior aspect of fore and hind Umb enlarged, 

 strongly keeled and imbricate; body short, compressed; a distinct nuchal 

 continuous with a distinct dorsal fold; Umbs rather short, the adpressed hind 

 limb reaching just beyond the ear opening; about eighteen lamellae under 

 phalanges II and III of fourth toe; tail very strongly compressed, surmounted 

 by a well-developed fin, the whole tail and fin segmented into verticils, each 

 limitLng row separated by seven scales on side of tail (where the fimiting rows 

 are faintly defined) and separated on the fin by five rows where the Umiting 



