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with the wide Hght dorsal stripe very apparent. In one young 

 example, U.S.N.M. 72599, the light dorsal stripe is bordered on each 

 side by two dark stripes which do not yet show a tendency to break 

 up into rhombs or squares. 



"Relationships. — While the possession of dilated toes allies the new 

 genus indisputably to Anolis and its close relatives, the squat flat- 

 tened body and the v/rinldes on the side of the neck suggest at fu-st 

 glance a Leiocephalus or a Plica, to neither of which genera can 

 Audantia be truly closely related. The possession of the transverse 

 gular folds might suggest a closer correlation to Deiroptyx, but as a 

 matter of fact these two genera do not resemble one another closely 

 when actually seen together. 



"In body build, as well as somewhat in coloration, Audantia armouri 

 is slightly suggestive of Anolis cyhotes cybotes also of Hispaniola, but 

 there the resemblance ends, for the well-developed longitudinal gular 

 fold of the latter, as well as its distinctly verticillate tail and many 

 other details, separate them readily, 



"Audantia is the third new genus of lizard to be described from 

 Haiti in the past seven years, and one of the two others (Wetmorena) 

 also came from Massif de la Selle." 



Specimens examined. — As listed in table 33. 



Table 33. — Specimens of Audantia armouri examined 



AUDANTIA SHREVEI Cochran 



Figure 61 

 1939. Audantia shrevei Cochran, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 18, p. 2. 



Diagnosis. — Resembles Audantia armouri, but having a large nuchal 

 patch of enlarged keeled scales, having a darker and more uniform 

 coloration, and attaining a larger adult size; frontal scales keeled. 



