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tion, although lacking part of its tail. Mr. R. M. Grey has since sent the 
M. C. Z. a fine adult female from Soledad, near Cienfuegos, so that a topotype 
recently taken could also be compared with the type. The species is not un- 
common about Guane and Luis Lazo and on the Island of Pines (Barbour). 
In the Island of Pines especially, it seems to frequent the trunks of Royal Palms, 
with the colour of which it blends beautifully. At Guane we found it principally 
in the thick “‘manigua” or scrub generally upon white or gray rocks. 
26. ANOLIS ISOLEPIS Cope. 
Plate 7, fig. 2. 
Lagartija. 
Diagnosis: — A very small, compressed, short limbed, thickset Anolis, 
cross banded with dark mauve upon a very light mauve-ground. Entirely 
covered above and below with tiny uniform scales. Dewlap apricot-yellow; 
head without frontal ridges. 
Description: — Adult? # M. C. Z. 8,514. Cuba: Oriente; Jiguanf, Los 
Negros, (High Sierra Maestra), 1913. Thomas Barbour. 
No frontal ridges, top of head covered with plate-like scales with many 
parallel striae; all head-scales striate, none carinate; only three or four rather 
large scales between the nostrils; supraocular semicircles separated by but 
one row of large striate scales; supraocular dises ill defined, the whole supra- 
ocular area covered with plate-like scales of varying size and hardly distinguish- 
able from the semicircles; canthus rostralis composed of three or four scales, 
the anterior largest, projecting backward to form a short supraorbital ridge; 
loreal rows, three; subocular semicircles of rather large keeled scales, one behind 
and below the eye large, semicircles broadly in contact with the supralabials; 
eight or nine smooth supralabials, the suture between the seventh and eighth 
below the centre of the eye; occipital not much enlarged, about the size of the 
ear opening and similar in character to the surrounding scales; temporals 
rather large, flat and polygonal; scales of back, sides, and belly all very small, 
the belly-seales and the dorsals a little smaller than those on the sides, belly- 
scales perfectly smooth and slightly imbricate; scales upon anterior aspects 
of the limbs not enlarged nor imbricating; body stout, compressed; no nuchal 
nor dorsal fold; digits of hind limb short; the adpressed hind limb reaches but 
very slightly beyond the axilla; digital expansions very little developed, about 
