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without verticils or serrated edge; postanal scales well developed; 

 gular pouch rather small, probably not very extensible; a transverse 

 fold across throat and two others in front of shoulder; hindlimb 

 reaches to front of eye; forelimb reaches three-fourths the distance 

 to groin. 



Dimensions: Total length, 174 mm.; tip of snout to vent, 46 mm.; 

 vent to tip of tail, 128 mm. ; tip of snout to ear, 16 mm. ; tip of snout to 

 center of eye, 10 mm.; width of head, 8 mm.; foreleg, 17 mm.; hind- 

 leg, 36 mm.; tibia, 12 mm.; anterior border of nostril to tip of snout, 

 1 mm. 



Color (in alcohol) : Top of head and neck drab ; a dark lateral streak 

 from rostral, turning to purple behind eye and suddenly narrowing 



Figure 59. — Anolis hendersoni: a. Top of head; b, side of head; c, middorsal scales; d, side of 

 tail. U.S.N. M. No. 59210, type, from Petionville, Haiti. Three times natural size. 



above the shoulder to a black line continuing to groin; the nuchal 

 region between these dark streaks marbled with dark bluish gray to 

 the shoulders, where the marblings suddenly cease, leaving the back 

 and tail a uniform unspotted gray; below the dark lateral streak a 

 sharply defined white stripe beginning on upper lip below eye and con- 

 tinuing backward to hindleg, bordered beneath from axilla to groin 

 by a narrow dark line, the lower edge of which is produced into dark 

 grayish-blue marblings, in which are anastomosing white spots; ventral 

 surface pale blue; the lower labials white flecked with light gray 

 marblings; limbs pale and unspotted, with dusky bands across the 

 digits above. 



