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is almost always present. It was first taken by Charles Wright at the Cafetal 
Monte Verde in the Sierra de Yateras, and rediscovered there; it has also been 
collected at Monte Libano, at Bayate near Guantanamo and at La Maya 
(Ramsden), and seems to be entirely confined to eastern Oriente. Curiously 
enough it is found most frequently in the coffee groves of the damp mountain 
forests. A few specimens, however, have been secured in lowlands about three 
miles 8. E. of Guantanamo City and upon Guasima trees at the San Carlos 
sugar plantation. It is a slow moving, rather chunky, thickset Anolis, not 
depressed like loysiana and very different in appearance from any other in Cuba. 
The character of the head-scales recalls the condition in loysiana, but the tail 
is entirely different, much longer and differently formed, there are no spine-like 
projecting scales as in that species, and the dewlap is very much larger. 
34. ANOLIS SPECTRUM Peters. 
Plate 7, fig. 5. 
Lagartija. 
Diagnosis: — An excessively long and slender Anolis, head nearly three 
times as long as broad; grayish or greenish with a conspicuous white spot on 
the elbows. 
Description: — Head nearly three times as long as broad, longer than the 
tibia; forehead concave; upper head-scales smooth; scales of the supraorbital 
semicircles large, separated by one series of scales; three or four enlarged, keeled 
supraocular scales, in contact with the supraorbitals; occipital nearly as large 
as the ear opening, separated from the supraorbitals by one or two series of 
scales; canthus rostralis feebly marked; loreal rows, four; eight supralabials; 
ear opening moderately large, roundish; gular appendage small; gular scales 
keeled; body compressed; no nuchal nor dorsal fold; six or eight longitudinal 
series of large, hexagonal, keeled dorsal scales, which are broader than long, 
and at least twice as large, as the ventrals; lateral scales very small, granular; 
ventral scales keeled; the adpressed hind limb reaches between the ear and the 
eye; tail round or slightly compressed, covered with large strongly keeled 
scales, the keels forming continuous lines; its length more than twice that of 
head and body (after Boulenger). 
Colour (alcoholic specimen) :— Yellowish gray or metallic green above, the 
sides of the body brown; a sharply defined white spot at the elbow. 
