164 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



Dimensions: — Total length 202 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 66 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 136 mm. 



Width of head 11 nam. 



Fore leg 24 mm. 



Hind leg 41 mm. 



This large and beautiful Anolis represents in Cuba the abundant and 

 familiar Anolis carolinensis Voigt of the southern United States. The two 

 species have often been confused, even by such an authority as Boulenger. They 

 are very distinct. Anolis brunneus Cope of the Bahamas is, in some respects, 

 rather intermediate between the Cuban and Floridan forms. 



In Cuba Anolis porcatus is widely distributed and it is one of the best known 

 and most easily recognized reptiles of the island. It has adapted itself specia^Uy 

 to life in gardens and it often comes to the windows and verandas of country 

 houses in search of its insect prey. They are particularly wont to sim them- 

 selves upon the many agaves or magueyes so often planted in Cuban gardens. 

 In the Botanical Gardens in Havana and in many of the well-planted plazas 

 of the larger provincial towns Anolis porcatus is a beautiful and attractive 

 denizen. In the unsettled districts it frequents the sunny margin of the forests, 

 but is excessively rare except in cultivated lands. We have collected and ex- 

 amined specimens in all of the six, provinces. It is especially abundant about the 

 city of Camaguey. 



43. NoROPS oPHioLEPis (Cope). 

 Plate 14, fig. 10. 



Lagartija de la Yerba. 



Diagnosis: — A small terrestial Anolis-like lizard which may be distin- 

 guished from any of the members of that genus by the absence of digital dilata- 

 tions. The back, sides, and belly are all covered with sharply keeled, imbri- 

 cating scales. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 7,923. Cuba: Soledad near Cienfuegos, 

 February, 1910. Thomas Barbour. 



Top of head with very faintly indicated ridges wliich are almost parallel 

 (in some specimens they are not evident at all) ; supraocular semicircles indis- 

 tinct; separated from each other by two or three large, strongly keeled scales; 

 head-scales all heavily keeled; occipital oblong, small, about two thirds the size 



