CROCODILIANS, LIZARD8, AND SNAKES. 



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Our single species is easily identified by the following- characters: 

 Plates on head conspicuously carinated. Interorbital ridges con- 

 tinued between the nostrils to the end of snout. Nostrils more superior 

 than lateral. Pallets distinct. 



I )orsal and lateral scales all very small, the former gradually a little the largcii ; 

 much smaller than the ventral. Obscure green /. carolinensia. 



ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS Cuvier. 



Anoliti aarolineniiis Cuviek, Regue Animal, I, 1817, p. 43; 2d ed., II, 1829, p. 50. — 

 DuMKRiL and Bnmox, Erp. Gi'U., IV, 1837, p. 121. — Uumkkil, Cat. Coll. Rept. 

 1, 1851, p. 57. — HOLBROOK, N. Amer. Herp., II, 18-12, p. 67, pi. viii.— Cocteau, 

 in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Rept., 1843, p. 125, pi. xi. — Hallowell, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 232.— Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mas., II, 

 1885, p. 43, — Catesby, Nat, Hist. Carol., II, p. 55, pi. lxv. 



? Lacerta 'principalis Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., I, p. 360. 



Anolis bullaris Daudin, part, Rept., IV, 1802, p. 69. 



Anolis porcatits Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1840, p. 112. — Gray, Cat. Spec Liz. 

 Coll. Brit. Mu8., 1845, p. 201. 



AiioUiiH porcatus Gray, Cat. Liz., 1845, p. 201. 



Anolius principalis Gray, Cat. Liz., p. 202. 



Dactyloa (Ctenocercus) carolinensis Fitzin(;er, Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 68. 



Anolis principalis Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept., pi. xv, tig. 1. — Siiufeldt, Amer. 

 Nat., XVII, 1883, p. 919. 



Fig. 16. 

 Anolis cakolinknsis Cuvier. 



Collection of E. D. Cope. 



Head lengthened, narrow, roughened above, and resembling that of 

 an alligator. Two conspicuous crests of large angular plates, sepa- 

 rated by two other rows, bordering the supraorbital space behind and 



