198 REPTILES. 



Olive, with a few blact spots ; beneath silvery, black-dotted ; 

 head pyramidical, quadrangular ; nape and back with a fold edged 

 with a double series of rather larger scales ; scales of the back and 

 sides veiy minute, granular, of the middle of the back rather lar- 

 ger, 6-sided, of the belly ovate, thin, larger, flat, smooth ; tail com- 

 pressed, sharp-edged above ; the males with a large crest, support- 

 ed by bony rays. 



a. Male, in spirits. West Indies ? From Mr. Leadbeater's col- 

 lection. 



24. Dactyloa, Grai/. 



The penultimate joint of the toes dilated. Back and tail with 

 a crest foimed of a series of compressed scales. Ventral scales 

 flat, imbricate. Jaws equal. Muzzle rounded in front. Rostral 

 plate erect. 



* Scales large, Jlat, not imbricate. 



The Equestrian Anolis. Dactyloa equestris. Gray, Ann. 

 N. H. V. III. Anolis equestris, Merrem, Tent. 45. Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. iv. 157. Le grand Anolis a echarpe, Cuv. R. A. ii. 49, t. 

 b,f. 2. A. rhodolaemus, Bell, Zool. Journ. iii. 235, t. 20. Shane, 

 Jam. ii. 273,/. 2. 



Head very rugose, tubercular, shields conical ; ears small ; 

 throat-pouch yellow or white ; nape, back and tail with a simple 

 denticulated crest; tail very compressed; scales of the upper parts 

 flat, smooth, not imbricate, of the belly imbricate, keelless ; blue 

 or green, with an oblique whitish band above the shoulder. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Head very warty, temple with a round group 

 of warts. Cuba. Presented by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. 



h. Half grown, in spirits. Head and temple rather warty. From 

 Mr. Leadbeater's collection. 



** Scales small, granular, convex. 



Edwards's Anolis. Dactyloa Edwardsii. Anolis Edwardsii, 

 Merrem, Tent. 45. Dum. et Bib. E. 6^. iv. 161. The Blue Lizard, 

 Edw. Glean, i. 75, t. 245, f. 2. 



Green, with 4 or 5 pale cross bands ; head elongate, depressed, 

 covered with small nearly equal keeled plates ; nape, back and tail 

 with a small serrated crest ; tail compressed, sharp-edged ; scales 

 of the upper parts small, close, granular, conical, of the belly 

 square, smooth, imbricate. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Dorsal crest rather irregular, low. 



b. Adult, in spirits. Jamaica. Presented by Robert Heward, Esq. 



c. d. Adult and half grown, in spirits. Jamaica. 



