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42. Anolis porcatus Gray. 

 Plate 14, fig. 9. 

 Lagartija verde. 



Diagnosis: — A depressed brilliant green or brown Anolis, with an elongate, 

 flattened head with strong rugose scales, the digits greatly dilated, the tail 

 round and the dewlap fight carmine, the gular scales being white. 



Description: — Adult a^ M. C. Z. 10,881. Cuba: Pinar del Rio; Guane, 

 March, 1915. Thomas Barbour. 



Top of head with strong heavy parallel ridges upon the elongate snout; 

 all the head-scales heavily keeled or strongly rugose; six scales in a row between 

 thejiostrils; supraocular semicircles elevated and very rugose, separated by a 

 row of rugose scales; occipital and ear opening small, of about the same size; 

 supraocular discs not strongly defined, composed of about twelve rugose scales; 

 separated from the semicircles by a row of keeled scales; canthus rostraUs 

 extremely prominent, long, composed of five or six large scales, extending 

 backward a single long scale forms a short supercifiary ridge; loreal rows, three; 

 subocular semicircles long, composed of keeled scales in contact with supra- 

 oculars; nine or ten sfightly rugose supralabials, the seventh under the eye; 

 temporals rather large and flat, all about the same size, no trace whatsoever of 

 a supratemporal line; scales of back and sides, equal, often faintly keeled and 

 with a slight tendency to imbricate; ventrals not much larger than laterals, 

 faintly keeled and slightly imbricate; scales of anterior aspect of fore and hind 

 limbs not enlarged; body elongate, depressed; a very inconspicuous nuchal 

 and dorsal fold; limbs medium long, with large digital dilations; the adpressed 

 hind fimb reaches to about the ear opening; about thirty-two lamellae under 

 phalanges II and III of the fourth toe; tail long, round or sfightly depressed 

 at the base, with verticils weakly indicated at four scale intervals, scales of 

 fimiting row not greatly enlarged; postanals not enlarged. 



Colour (in life) : — Body and tail usually grass-green, the head (in adult 

 males) often sky-blue; the colour may change to green with a rufous dorsal 

 stripe or to brown variously streaked and vermiculated with green or vice versa. 

 The throat and lower surfaces are often sparingly streaked and dotted with 

 dark brown. The belly is whitish; the dewlap skin is light carmine, the scales 

 being white, the carmine in adult males is extended to form a rather large pink 

 spot upon the throat. 



