NO. 7 HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS COCHRAN 1 5 



color with the belly. The posterior half of the upper side and the 

 outside of the hind legs are marked with obscure spots of blue. An 

 inch behind the base of the tail the same peacock-blue seen on the 

 forehead reappears, slowly grading from the general dorsal color. The 

 last 2 inches of the tail is pale brown. Here spots and splashes of dark 

 brown, blue, and various shades of rose are irregularly scattered about. 

 The median under part of the tail is a little paler than the ground color 

 of the rest, and free from spots on the outer half, the posterior inch of 

 the coarse, scaled portion being brown. 



It may be noted here that the seven St. Eustacius lizards have a 

 dark brown spot just above the white shoulder stripe. This is lacking 

 in the 7 lizards from Nevis, but is slightly apparent in 12 from St. 

 Kitts, according to the alcoholic specimens that I have examined. Color 

 differences between the Nevis and St. Eustacius lizards were observed 

 by Dr. Bartsch in the living animals, for in his field notes written 

 after his excursion to Mount Nevis on July 27, he writes : " . . . . 

 on the return I shot ... a bunch of lizards — two kinds. The blue- 

 green one is not so beautiful here as on St. Eustacius. I got one with 

 two tails". 



ANOLIS BONAIRENSIS Ruthven 



Anolis bonaircnsis Ruthven, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, no. 143, p. 4, 

 July 9, 1923. 



U.S.N.M. nos. 79258-70 from Bonaire Island, September 12-13, 

 1934. The gular fan of no. 79267 was primrose-yellow after having 

 been preserved for 2 months. 



ANOLIS BRUNNEUS (Cope) 



Anolis principalis brunncns Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, p. 432. 



Some scattered examples of this much disputed species were taken 

 at the following places : U.S.N.M. nos. 81449-50 from Flamingo Cays 

 of the Ragged Island Group on June 25, 1930; no. 81 561 from Castle 

 Island, south of Acklins Island, on July 8, 1930; no. 81649 from 

 Pinnacle Hill, Acklins Island, on July 9, 1930; nos. 81525-27 from 

 Cay Sal on June 17, 1930; nos. 81558-9 from Cotton Cay of the Cay 

 Sal Group on June 23, 1930. 



The lizards from the Cay Sal group have distinctly larger dorsal 

 granules than do the others listed above. In other respects they seem 

 to be very similar. An examination of the type of Anolis hrnnnciis, or, 

 lacking that, the careful study of topotypic material from Crooked 

 Island must be made before a positive statement regarding the actual 

 status of the species can be issued. 



