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rows are well enlarged and perfectly evident; on the upper edge of the fin three 

 saw-tooth scales separate the uppermost scale of two Umiting rows; postanal 

 scales slightly enlarged. 



Colour (in alcohol) : — Brown, dark above, light beneath ; on each side of 

 the thoracic region two very dark blotches surrounded by more or less confluent 

 small white spots. The dewlap appears to have been pink. 



This interesting novelty was discovered by Dr. Carlos de la Torre of the 

 University of Havana during the cruise of the Tomas Barrera while collect- 

 ing molluscs at Cabo San Antonio, the western extremity of Cuba, as the guest 

 of John B. Henderson, Esq., of Washington. Thi-ee specimens were secured, in 

 a small wooded area near the Ensenada de Caj6n on the north coast of the Cape. 

 All three specimens are in exact agreement with regard to the peculiar coloura- 

 tion. From this fact it is very probable that as with certain other colour-char-' 

 acters in species of Anohs these dark spots smTounded with wliite dots repre- 

 sent a permanent colour-pattern, while the ground colour of the rest of the 

 body may vary a great deal. 



40. Anolis allogus, sp. nov. 



Plate 10, fig. 2. 



Lagartija. 



Diagnosis: — A heavy thickset AnoUs, confined to woodlands, having a 

 strongly compressed tail with a well-developed "fin"; smooth ventral scales 

 and dewlap carmine in the centre surrounded by a broad marginal zone of 

 brilliant yellow. 



Description: — Type. Adult cf M. C. Z. 8,544. Cuba: Oriente; Bueycito 

 near Bayamo (Sierra Maestra), 1913, Cuban Exped. Carlos de la Torre, Thomas 

 Barbour, and V. J. Rodriguez. 



Top of head with two short, rather indistinct, widely bowed ridges, where 

 farthest apart separated by three or f om- series of faintly keeled or rugose scales ; 

 head-scales weakly keeled or rugose; about nine scales in a row between the 

 nostrils; supraocular semicircles separated by two rows of keeled scales; occi- 

 pital roughly rotund, in a distinctly depressed area, less than one half the size 

 of the ear opening ; separated from the semicircles by four or five rows of sUghtly 

 enlarged rugose scales; supraocular discs irregular, composed of twelve to 

 fourteen enlarged weakly keeled scales, separated from the semicircles by a 

 single row of granules; can thus rostraUs distinct, of five or six scales, prolonged 



