26 ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



Unless otherwise specified the collections were made by 

 the writer. 



Xipiiocercus valenciennii Dum. Bibr., 1837. 



A female has transverse bands of light brown on the 

 limbs, a band across the neck, another immediately be- 

 hind the shoulders and another in front of the thighs on 

 the flanks ; the tail is ringed with brownish ; between 

 the eye and the ear on each side of the head there is a 

 quadrangular space enclosed by four short narrow lines of 

 brown ; a streak of light color extends from the loreal re- 

 gion beneath the eye to the angle of the month ; the gnlar 

 fold is purple with a creamy border ; the lips are black ; 

 the upper and the lower surface of the head are whitish ; 

 there are short, narrow longitudinal streaks of brown ar- 

 ranged in transverse series on the flanks; and along the 

 median line of the back there are several small, transverse 

 blotches of brownish, with others of light color. 



On a young one, less than an inch in length of body, 

 the markings are similar though much lighter; a light 

 brown band crosses the supraoculars and passes down- 

 ward through the eye across the lips; vertical linos of 

 brown cross both lips in front of the eyes ; the gnlar fold 

 is of a pink tint. In this little one the goitre is compar- 

 atively large, although the short snout, not longer than 

 the orbit, convex on the upper surface, the disproportion- 

 ate size of the eye and the bulged, swollen appearance of 

 the parietal region indicate that it had been but a short 

 time out of the egg. 



Kingston, Jamaica. 



Anolis equestris Menem, 1820. 



There are five large specimens in the collection which 

 are referred to this species. One of the lot is said to 



