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ventral band of smooth granular scales; these in turn suddenly give place 

 to about fourteen rows of very large, heavily keeled ventral scales, the 

 two or three median ventral rows much smaller than the others. The 

 hindleg being adpressed, the tip of the fourth toe reaches a point half- 

 way between the tympanum and the eye; the arm being laid back along 

 the sides, the finger-tips extend about four-fifths of the way to the 

 groin; limbs entirely covered with imbricate scales, the keels usually 

 continuous. Digits medium in length, slightly depressed and very 

 slightly expanded, the terminal phalanx of each digit compressed at 

 the joint, then expanded before the claw is reached. Claws strong, 

 inserted at the end of the expanded portion of the digits; third and 

 fourth fingers nearly equal in length; fourth toe much the longest, 

 with 25 lamellae beneath it; fifth toe as long as second, and set in at 

 right angles to the others; first toe very short. Tail long, nearly two 

 and one-half times the length of the head and body, round, covered 

 with imbricate, keeled scales, not at all verticillate. No enlarged 

 post-anal scales visible. 



"Dimensions. — Snout to vent, 26 mm.; tail, 61 mm.; hindleg, 19 

 mm.; arm, 11 mm.; width of body, 3 mm.; depth of body, 6.5 mm.; 

 width of head, 6 mm. ; length of head, 10 mm. 



"General color above whitish gray; a dark-brown irregular ring 

 completely encircling the head, between the eyes appearing as a 

 chevron, under the eyes as a dark bar to the lips and on the lower jaw 

 and throat as a sinuous dark marking set off by a light anterior border; 

 another much fainter mark in front of this on the chin, ending on the 

 upper lip in a dark vertical bar in front of the eye; a very light dark- 

 edged longitudinal stripe on the frontal region, and another U-shaped 

 one behind the dark chevron. Three light-brown vertical bars on 

 each side of the body; a small dark triangular blotch just above the 

 groin. Ventral surfaces dark grayish-brown, with irregular streaks 

 of lighter color on the belly and lower surfaces of the limbs. Throat 

 on either side of fan and in front of transverse fold intensely black; 

 center of fan brown. Tail nearly white above, bluish-gray below, with 

 about a dozen light bands edged with darker gray, these scarcely 

 visible when seen from above. Occasional jet-black tips on the 

 spinose tubercles and elevations on head and back." 



Genus ANOLIS Daudin 



1802. Anolis Daudin, Histoire naturelle . . . des reptiles, vol. 4, p. 50 (type, 

 A. bullaris-carolinensis) . 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF ANOLIS FROM HISPANIOLA 



a 1 . Dorsal scales entirely separated from each other by several 



circles of granules ricordii (p. 130) 



