44 ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



distinct, low ; upper head scales not keeled ; scales of the 

 supraorbital semicircles large, continuous forward with the 

 frontal series, usually one of each in contact across the in- 

 terorbital space ; eight to twelve enlarged supraoculars, 

 smooth or with a low tubercle on the centre, separated 

 from the supraorbitals by one series of granules ; occipital 

 scale larger than the ear opening, separated from the su- 

 praorbitals by one series or more ; rostral canthus angular, 

 of four scales ; loreal rows five ; six labials to below the 

 centre of the eye; ear opening medium, vertical diameter 

 longer. Gular appendage moderate, smooth scaled. 



Body little compressed, dorso-nuchal fold slight. Dor- 

 sal scales small, granular, keeled, enlarged near the large 

 ones of the median rows; ventrals large, carinate, imbri- 

 cate, posterior border rounded; antefemoral scales larger 

 than ventrals, keeled. Limbs moderate, adpressed the 

 hind leg reaches the eye ; digital expansions rather large ; 

 lamellae under phalanges ii and ill of the fourth toe about 

 twenty-five. Tail compressed, rough, serrated on the up- 

 per edge by large scales of which that marking the end of 

 a segment is somewhat larger, less than one and a half 

 times as long as head and body. Male with enlarged post- 

 anal scales. 



Blue to olive or brownish; head lighter, yellowish to 

 yellowish brown, a light streak along the upper lip ; belly 

 lighter, yellowish posteriorly ; legs whitish beneath. The 

 back is uniform or sprinkled with indistinct small spots of 

 whitish on neck and shoulders, rarely on the flanks. Young 

 ones are light grayish and have a dark-edged vertebral 

 band of light color, which is sometimes crossed by hour- 

 glass-shaped transverse bands of brown. 



Jliih. Montserrat. Fifty-three specimens. 



Anolis luci^e, sp. n. 



Head longer than the tibia, one and three-fourths times 



