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liant carmine sides covered with anastomosing black lines; 

 belly yellowish; back and tail black with beautiful narrow 

 blue-gray, almost mauve crossbars." I have never seen such 

 a gaudy little critter except my Diploglossus resplendens 

 from Bolivia. 



A few days after our Upper Jesusito camp was made 

 we began to fell trees to let in sunlight and breeze. As it 

 turned out, there was no breeze and the sun was almost 

 constantly obscured by rain clouds. One tree came down 

 with a crash and brought with it a living and uninjured 

 Corythophanes cristatus. The interesting point in connec- 

 tion with this capture was that we kept the lizard alive 

 long enough to find that its actions were singularly 

 chameleonlike. 



It was sluggish and deliberate in its movements, and when 

 angered it reared upright, flattened its body vertically, and 

 bent down its head. Its mouth meanwhile was opened 

 widely in a way that recalled at once captive and angry 

 African chameleons. That the very peculiar superficial 

 similarity of appearance should be accompanied by such 

 similar sluggish movements and curious attitudes is most 

 noteworthy and almost incredible when the protean zo- 

 ologic gap between the two genera is considered. 



In a few places where the forest roof leaked spots of 

 sunlight the ground dried out and the great, curly, new- 

 fallen leaves made noisy walking. In these little dried-out 

 spaces we found some tiny lizards. They crept swiftly and 

 stealthily over the big dead leaves, and when the sun was 

 hidden, as it often was because of the frequent showers, 

 these little lizards hid at once, to reappear when their 

 moldy abode became dry again. They were not easy to 



