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ventrals 157; anal divided; caudals 128. Head and body, 371 mm.; 

 tail, 259 mm. 



Color (in alcohol): Top of head and back olive-brown; a white line 

 beginning on the snout and continuing on the canthus rostralis, passing 

 through the upper portion of the eye and backward through the upper 

 postocular and parietal and onto the adjoining halves of the fifth and 

 sixth scale rows down the body; on the tail the light stripe occupies 

 the middle of the second row for half the distance, where it merges 

 with the olive-brown color to the tip ; a dark olive stripe beginning at 

 the tip of the snout, continuing on the side of the head and on the 

 fourth and lower half of the fifth scale rows; the first three scale rows 

 bluish gray, the edges occasionally olive; upper labials white; chin and 

 throat cream-white, with a few dark spots on the lower labials and 

 others scattered on the anterior ventrals; lower surface of body cream- 

 color; the o^uter edges of the ventrals, and posteriorly their anterior 

 borders also suffused with bluish gray; subcaudals cream color with 

 bluish-gray marks on the outer and inner borders; posterior third of 

 the tail immaculate. 



Variation. — Color variation is very marked in this species, especially 

 middorsally. The lower dark lateral stripe is quite constant, as is the 

 light stripe bordering it above, always on part ol the fifth, alJ the sixth, 

 and usually also on the lower part of the seventh scale rows. The 

 dark lateral stripe just described originates at the nostril and passes 

 through the eye ; the light bordering stripe is first seen on the canthus 

 rostralis, broadening on the supraocular region and continuing back- 

 ward on neck and body. The middorsal stripe originates on the 

 snout and continues over the parietal region; on the neck it is four 

 and two half-scales wide, but increases until by midbody it covers 

 seven and two half-scales. This stripe may remain uniformly dark 

 throughout its entire length. It usually disintegrates behind the 

 head into a series of black-spotted olive scales with the median 

 dorsal row sometimes prominent and black and sometimes not at all 

 differentiated by color. To make this row seem more clear-cut when 

 it is differentiated, the scales on either side of it are frequently flecked 

 with white at the tips, while the outer ones of the stripe are uniformly 

 dark, so that it appears that this middorsal stripe is made up of five 

 little stripes altogether — three dark ones and two lighter. The ventral 

 surface may be a more or less uniform light olive, with only a little 

 invasion of the lateral dark pigment on the ends of the gastrosteges, 

 or there may be (and usually is) a plentiful scattering of round black 

 dots more or less in regular pairs on the throat, and a black dot on the 

 end of every ventral. These gradually disappear near midbody. 



Habits. — The stomach of No. 74498 contained the remains of a full- 

 grown Anolis chloro-cyanus. 



■Specimens examined. — As listed in table 7 1 . 



