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ANOLIS DISTICHUS WETMOREI Cochran 



Figure 51 



1931. Anolis dominicensis welmorei Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 44, 

 p. 89 (type locality, Beata Island, Dominican Republic); Occ. Pap. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 169, 1934. — Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, 

 p. 113, 1935. 



1937. Anolis distichus wetmorei Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, 

 p. 126. 



Original description. — "Description oj the type. — U.S.N.M. No. 

 83881, an adult male from Beata Island, Dominican Republic, col- 

 lected on May 13, 1931, by Dr. A. Wetmore and Mr. F. C. Lincoln. 

 Head very short, the weakly developed frontal ridges becoming in- 

 distinct just in front of the orbit ; forehead concave; head scales smooth; 



Figure 51. — Anolis distichus wetmorei: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, middorsal scales; 

 d, side of tail. U.S.N.M. No. 83881, type, from Beata Island, Dominican Republic. 

 Three times natural size. 



rostral very low, narrower than the mentals; four scales between 

 the nostrils ; a median series of six pairs of rectangular, enlarged scales 

 on the snout from the rostral to the juncture of the supraorbital 

 semicircles which are closely in contact between the eyes ; a single small 

 scale where the supraorbital series separates; occipital larger than the 

 ear opening, nearly diamond-shaped, very prominent, completely 

 separated from the supraorbital semicircles by a single row of small 

 scales; supraocular disk composed of five polygonal smooth scales, 

 separated from the semicircles by two rows of granular scales; a group 

 of three small scales bordering the inner anterior edge of the super- 

 ciliary; can thus rostralis moderately developed, the four enlarged 

 scales which distinguish it having a low median ridge which projects 

 slightly over the loreal region; superciliary ridge distinctly continuous 

 with the scales of the canthus, composed of one very elongate and 

 sharply keeled scale followed by a double row of small but differenti- 



