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unknown beyond the fact that it was from some island in the West 

 Indies. When Boiilenger, in 1885, pubhshed the second volume of 

 his Catalogue of Lizards the specimen was still unique and the par- 

 ticular island to which it belongs unknown. However, in 1892 Miiller, 

 of Basel, recorded it from Cuba,* and since then it has been found 

 there by nearly all collectors ; thus, by Doctor Richmond and myself 

 in 1900 at Santiago de Cuba, in eastern Cuba, and by Palmer and 

 Riley in the western part. Thc}^ brought home numerous specimens 

 from San Diego de los Banos, where it must have been very common, 

 and also from El Guamd, Caimito, Mariol, 

 as vrell as from Nuevo Gcrona, Isle of 

 Pines. It is quite remark- 

 able that this rather con- 

 spicuous species escaped 

 the attention of Doctor 

 Gundlach. 



At Santiago de Cuba on 

 April 23, 1900, 1 took the 

 followmg color notes from. 

 a specimen collected by 

 Doctor Richmond (No. 

 26770 U.S.N.M., collec- 

 tor's. No. 9074): Iris 

 blackish -brown; edge of 

 eyeUds bright yeUow ; gen- 

 eral color above Isabella 

 colored with a wash of 

 cinnamon, especially on the fl .nks ; a series of faintly indicated narrow 

 dusky chevron marks with t!ie points turned backward on the median 

 Une of the back; on sacrum a larger, irregular, dusky mark on each 

 side; on the sides of back and flanks numerous vertical rows of small 

 pale dots more or less margined with dusky ; a faint narrow pale line 

 from above shoulder to insertion of hind limb; suboculars whitish; 

 tail with the merest indication of dusky crossbars ; throat and fore- 

 neck white, the sides of throat with several series of darkish gray 

 spots ; rest of underside dehcate straw-yellow, gradually merging into 

 the white of the f oreneck and the cinnamon of the flanks ; underside 

 of limbs with minute gray dots; a line composed of blackish dots 

 along posterior edge of forclimb and outer edge of tibia; a series of 

 yellow dusky-margined ocelli on posterior edge of femur; dewlap 

 pale pearl-gray with distant white scales and slightly thickened ante- 

 rior edge of white scales; tongue flesh colored; a low l)ut long nuchal 

 fold and a low dorsal fold; on the tail a pretty high crest of tho 

 A. cristatellus order, but the end of the tail seems to be prehensile to 



Figs. 46-47.— Anolis homoi.echis. 2 X nat. size. No. 2B770, 

 U.S.N.M. Santiago de Cuba.— 48 represents .''ide of 



TAIL .AT about THE FIFTH VERTICIL, 4 X NAT. SIZE, OF SAME 



individual. 



' Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 2n. 



