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SQUAMATA. 



Correctly outlined by Merrem {Tent. Syst. Amph., p. 39, 1820) with 

 groups (I) Gradientia, (II) Repentia, (III) Serpentia. 



Oppel used Squamata in 1811 with groups (I) saurii, (II) ophidii, 

 but he included crocodiles in saurii. 



LACERTILIA. 



Authors previous to Owen either included with lizards the crocodiles, 

 or omitted serpentiform lizards, under the names Gradientia, "sau- 

 riens," or saurii. They were first correctly delimited under the name 

 Lacertilia by Owen {Rep. Br. Ass. Adv. of Sc, 1841, p. 162). 



GEOKONIDuE. 



Phyllodactylus Gray (Spicilegia Zoologica, p. 3, 1830). 



Monotype Phyllodactylus pulcher Gray. 

 Sphfflrodaotylua Wagl. (Syst. Amph., p. 143, 1830). 



Type Sphcerodactylus sputator Sparr. By designation of Fitzinger 

 {Syst. Rept., 18, 1843). It was also the only one of Wagler's species 

 retained in the genus by Gray (1831) and Dumeril and Bibron (1836). 



EUBLEPH ARID^ . 



Coleonix Gray (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 184,5, 162). 



Type Coleonyx elegans Gray. By designation of Boulenger {Cat. 

 Liz. Br. Mus., 1, p. 234, 1885). 



IGUANID^. 



Anolis Daudin (Hist. Nat. Rept., IV, p. 50, 1803). 



According to Dr. Stejneger {Herp. of Porto Rico, 625, 1904) the type 

 of Anolis is A. hullaris. But the pertinency of this name to any known 

 species is far from certain. Lacerta hullaris linn, rests on Catesby's 

 plate 66, "Lacerta viridis jamaicensis ," whose recognition is chiefly 

 an act of faith. No other of the early authors added exactness to its 

 use. A. hullaris Daud. {I. c, p. 69) is based on L. hullaris Linn., adding 

 thereto Catesby's plate 65, "Lacerta viridis carolinensis /' and another 

 unassignable Linnean name, L. strumosa. Dumeril and Bibron (Vol. 

 4, pp. 117, 120) divide A. hullaris Daud. into A. chloro-cyanus and A. 

 carolinensis, considering the first of these species to be questionably 

 L. hullaris Linn. As A. carolinensis D. and B. rests on a firm basis in 

 Catesby, it would seem that this name should not be disturbed, and 

 that hullaris of authors should be permitted to remain in obscurity. 



