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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



ANOLIS CRISTATELLUS« Dumeril and Bibron. 



837. Anotts cristatellus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp£t. Gen., IV, p. 143 (type local- 

 ity, Martinique).— Dumeril, Cat. M6th. Rept. Paris, 1, 1851, p. 58 (St. 

 John, Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe). — Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. 

 Meddel. Naturh. Foren., (Copenhagen) 1862 (1863) (p. 249), author's 

 separate, p. 97 (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, Just v. Dyck, 

 Vieques, Water Island, Tortola, Porto Rico). — Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 

 Mex., Zool. Rept., livr. 2, 1873, pi. xiv, p. 12 (Martinique).— Peters, 

 Mon. Ber. Berlin Akad. Wiss., 1876, p. 706 (Porto Rico). — Gundlach, 

 Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., X, 1881, p. 309 (Porto Rico).— Stahl, 

 Fauna Puerto-Rico, 1882, pp. 69, 159 (Porto Rico). — Boulenger, Cat. 

 Liz. Brit. Mus., II, 1885, p. 26 (St. Thomas, Dominica, Martinique).— 

 Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XIX, 1887, p. 27 (Haiti, St. Thomas, 

 Bayamon, Porto Rico, Morant I.). — Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. 

 Hamburg, XVIII, 1901, p. 21 (St. Thomas, S.Domingo, Porto Rico).— 

 Xiphosurus c. Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1861. p. 208 (St. Thomas). 



Pigs. 92-94.— Anolis ckistatellus. 92, top of head; 93, side of head. 2| x natural size. 94, side of 

 tail at level of fifth spine. 5j x natural size. No. 26803, U.S.N.M. 



Description. — Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 26803; Pueblo Viejo, near 

 San Juan, February 14, 1900. Top of head with two diverging- frontal 

 ridges, which, with two similar, but reversed and lower, prefrontal 

 ridges, inclose a lozenge-shaped frontal hollow; head scales nearly 

 flat, except those forming the supraocular disk, which are keeled or, 

 rather, tuberculated; rostral low, narrower than the mentals, six or 

 eight scales in a series between the nostrils; supraocular semicircles 

 in contact w T ith two small scales between them at the intersection of 

 the sutures; occipital as large as the ear-opening, separated from the 

 supraocular semicircles by three rows of scales, which are flat and 



"Having a little crest; from crista, crest, cristatus, crested. 



