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Green to brownish olive; flanks, sacral region, limbs 

 and tail more or less purple or lilac in life; ventral sur- 

 faces whitish; gular fold darker, anteriorly, as also in 

 cases, the lower surface of the neck. Head most often 

 darker; upper lip frequently whitish. Very young ones 

 arc bronzed, light reddish brown, with faint transverse 

 hands and cloudings; white beneath. 



Hah. St. Vincent; eighty-seven specimens. 



Anolis LiNEATorus Gray, 1840. 



On very young specimens there are four vertical bands 

 of brownish on the think, sometimes more or less subdi- 

 vided, and from each a sharp angle is presented to one 

 from the opposite flank, meeting at the vertebral series. 



Bab. Kingston, Jamaica. Twenty-five specimens. 



Anolis sagrae (Cod.) Dum. Bibr., 1837. 



From Cuba, 5 ex., S. H. Scudder; 7 ex. Caibarien, 

 Cuba, N. H. Bishop; 60 ex., Matanzas, Havana, and 

 Bahia Honda, Cuba, S. Garman. 



Anolis ordinatus Cope, 1804. 



We have this variety of A. sagrae from the Bahamas, by 

 C. J. Maynard ; New Providence, Bahamas, by F. K. 

 Shaw; the Florida Keys by Count L. F. de Pourtales ; 

 and from Nassau, Bahamas, by J. C. Comstock. 



Anolis porcatus Gray, 1840. 



This Anolis is usually confounded with the A. princip- 

 alis Limit'', from the southern part of the United States. 

 The species are in reality quite distinct, though bearing 

 considerable resemblance to each other. Compared with 

 representatives oi A. principalis from the Carolinas, J. 

 porcatus has a longer snout, stronger and sharper cephalic 

 ridges, a longer tail, longer legs, more digital lamellae and 



