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37. ANOLIS HOMOLECHIS Cope. 
Plate 14, fig. 8. 
Lagartija. 
Diagnosis: — A dark coloured, woodland Anolis, one of the few Cuban 
species having, in the adults, a conspicuous fin-like crest upon the tail and the 
only species having a pure, ivory-white dewlap. 
Description: — Adult & M. C. Z. 8,575. Cuba: near Matanzas. Carlos 
de la Torre. 
Top of head with two almost parallel ridges of keeled scales, extending 
but half way to tip of snout and separated by first one then two rows of 
keeled scales; head-scales all sharply keeled; about six scales in a row between 
the nostrils; supraocular semicircles are formed by backward extensions of 
frontal ridges, and are separated by one row of scales; occipital oval, much 
smaller than ear opening, separated from the semicircles by two or three rows 
of scales; supraocular dise much differentiated, composed of a number of vari- 
ously enlarged, keeled scales, separated from the semicircles by one row of very 
small scales; canthus rostralis sharply defined, composed of four or five keeled 
elongate scales; extending backward it forms a superciliary ridge which reaches 
to over the posterior portion of the eye; loreal rows, four or five; subocular 
semicircles distinct, sharply depressing the supralabials; about ten smooth 
supralabials, the suture between the seventh and eighth under the centre of 
the eye; temporals fine and granular, a faintly indicated supratemporal line; 
dorsal and lateral scales minute and granular, two middorsal rows of granules 
slightly enlarged; ventrals large, smooth, cycloid, strongly imbricating; scales 
of anterior aspects of fore and hind limbs enlarged, imbricating and strongly 
keeled; body stout, no nuchal nor dorsal fold, limbs well developed, the ad- 
pressed hind limb reaches the anterior border of the orbit; digits much dilated, 
about seventeen lamellae under phalanges II and III of the fourth toe; tail not 
greatly elongated, very strongly compressed, surmounted by a highly developed 
fin-like crest; the whole caudal squamation regularly divided by verticils, the 
scales on the tail between the limiting rows small, increasing in size on the fin 
progressively upward, the fin surmounted by fine saw-like teeth three between 
each verticil, the fourth enlarged and forming the upper scale of each limiting 
row; postanal scales very slightly if at all enlarged. 
