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enlarged and imbricating; on digits imbricating and smooth; body depressed ; 
a very feeble nuchal, no dorsal fold; limbs long, the adpressed hind limb reach- 
ing to between the large eye and the nostrils; digits of hind limb long, expansions 
well developed, about nineteen lamellae under phalanges II and III of the 
fourth toe; tail long, almost round, covered with small keeled scales; verticils 
on the proximal portion only very feebly indicated, separated by about seven 
series of scales; postanal plates very slightly enlarged. 
Colour (in life): — Ashy gray or grayish brown, irregularly mottled with 
darker gray or brown; a white crescentic line under eye; limbs without cross- 
bars; dewlap greenish white. 
Dimensions: — Total length 161 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 54 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 107 mm. 
Width of head 8 mm. 
Fore leg 25 mm. 
Hind leg 56 mm. 
On the throat of the female of both this species and A. lucius there are brown 
longitudinal lines. 
Anolis argenteolus is another species which is very partial to the gray lime- 
stone cliffs, where, like lucius, its colour affords remarkable protection. It is, 
however, much more often than with that species found upon the trunks of 
trees or upon the sides of buildings but usually only when they are near out- 
croppings of limestone rock. The one chosen for description was taken upon 
one of the ‘“‘Spanish laurel” trees in the Plaza opposite the Cathedral in the 
city of Santiago. The species is confined to Oriente Province, so far as now 
known, but unlike luctus it has a considerable range. We have taken it in the 
mountains about Guantanamo; it is also found at San Luis, at Los Negros and 
Bueycito in the Sierra Maestra, at Cabo Cruz and Belig (Barbour), and at 
various points near Baracoa (de la Torre and V. J. Rodriguez). Thus it 
ranges widely in Oriente but has not been taken outside of the Province. Strange 
to say it is not found in the city of Guantanamo although it is very common 
in the cemetery and on the back yard walls of Santiago. This is the only species 
of Anolis which is found so near civilization and in the deep forest as well. 
Anolis porcatus and A. sagrei apparently occur now only in cultivated or aban- 
doned fields. 
Boulenger (Cat. lizards Brit. mus., 1885, 2, p. 45) confused this species 
