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List of specime7h3 of Celestus pleii 



Locality. 



When col- 

 lected. 



By whom col- 

 lected. 



Remarks. 



Lares 



Ad j untas 



Lares 



Catalina plantation (890 feet 

 altitude). 



Jan. 26, 1899 

 Feb. 3, 1899 

 Jan. 26, 1899 

 Mar. 1, 1900 



A. B. Baker 



do 



do 



L. Stejneger 



Description, p. 624. 



Specimen de- 

 scribed and fig- 

 ured, p. 623. 



Genus ANOLIS" Daudin. 



1803. ylnoZis D.\UDiN, Hist. Nat. Rept., Ill, p. 50 (type .4. bullaris). 



1817. Anolius Citviek, Regne Anim., 1st ed., II, p. 41 (emend.). 



1826. XlpJiomms Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., p. 17 (type A. cxuieri). 



1830. DadyZoa Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph., p. 148 (substitute name). 



1836. Acantholis Cocteau, Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, III, 1836, p. 226 (type A. 



loysiana). 

 1843. /Semiunts Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 64 {type Anolis cuvleri) . 

 1843. Eupristis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 64 (type Anolis equestris). 

 1843. Microctenus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 64 (type Anolis edwardsii=A. gar- 



mani). 

 1843. Cienonotus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 64 {type A^iolis bimaculatus). 

 1843. 7;9^«ocereit.? Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 65 (type J., a'istatellus) . 

 1843. Ptychonotus FiTziHGER, Syst. Rej^t., p. 65 {type A. fasciatus). 

 1843. Tracliycoelia Fitzinger, Syst. Rept.,. p. 66 (type A. lineatus). 

 1843. Ctenodeira Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 66 (type A. richardii). 

 1843. Eudactylus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 67 (type^. goudotii). 

 1843. Heterolepis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 67 (type ^. pidchella). 

 1843. Trachypilns Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 67 (type A. sagraei). 

 1843. Ctenocercus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 68 (type A. carolinensis). 

 1843. Heterodcrma Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 68 (type ^1. loysiana). 



The great facility witli which Diany species of this genus are able 

 to change their colors has earned for them the name American Chame- 

 leons, and the larger species are also usually known by the name 

 "cameleon" in the Greater Antilles, the smaller ones being called 

 "lagarto." The generic term Anolis, which is supposed to be of 

 West Indian origin, might very appropriately be adopted also as the 

 vernacular name. 



The faculty of changing color is quite astonishing in some of the 

 species. Thus the brilliantly emerald green Anolis eve'n/iarml turns 

 in an instant to a dingy wax-yellow with various dusky markings. 

 Under certain conditions ^1. gundlacJii and A. cristatelhis may appear 

 entirely sooty black, and while in affect A. krmji may lose its very 

 conspicuous longitudinally otriped pattern and become a semitrans- 

 lucent olive. The brilliant color of the gular sack, or dewlap, of the 

 males does not seem to l)e subject to this changeabilit}^ 



« Anolis, native name of several species in the Antilles. 

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