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VOL. 53. 



collected by Dr. Paul Bartsch and Mr. J. B. Henderson at Cabanas, 

 La Mulata, and Cape San Antonio. 



DEIROPTYX VERMICULATA (Dumgril and Bibron). 



Figs. 39 to 41. 

 This large anolis is so isolated and unrelated not only to the other 



species in Cuba, but to all known species of the whole anoline sub- 

 family, that its recogni- 

 tion as a separate generic 

 type is justly called for. 

 The most obvious struc- 

 tural character which is 

 miique in the group is the 

 absence of a dewlap and 

 the presence of a trans- 

 verse throat fold. 



Palmer and Riley, who 

 collected numerous speci- 

 mens at San Diego de los 

 Banos and at El Guama, 

 Pinar del Rio, corrobor- 

 ate Doctor Gundlach's 



observation that this species takes to the water when pursued or 



wounded, 



ANOLIS EQUESTRIS Merrem. 



Figs. 42 to 45. 



Four adult specimens were collected by Palmer and Riley at El 

 Guama, Pinar del Rio, at San Diego de los Banos, and at Guanajay. 

 Bowdish obtained one at Guama the following year. 



41 



Figs. 39^0.— Deiroptertx VERMICULATA. Nat. size. No. 27335, 

 U.S.N.M. El GuAM.i, Pinar del Rio.— 41. Side of tail of 



SAME AT ABOUT THE FIFTH VERTICIL. 2J X NAT. SIZE. 



FIGS. 42-43.- ANGUS EQUESTRIS. § X NAT. SIZE. NO. 27504, U.S.N.M. SAN DiEGO DE LOS BaSOS.- 

 ii REPRESENTS SIDE OF TAIL AT ABOUT THE FIFTH VERTICIL.— 15, PART OF DORSAL CREST AND LEPI- 

 BOSIS IJNAT. size; SAME INDIVIDUAL. 



ANOLIS HOMOLECHIS (Cope). 



Figs. 46 to 48. 

 This species was originally described by Cope as Xipliosurus Jiomo- 

 lecUs,^ from a specimen in British Museum, the habitat of which was 



1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Hist., Philadelphia, 1864, p. 169, 



