156 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
Colour (in life): — Dark rich brown almost black, when at rest; when 
disturbed may become light brown with darker dorsal rhombs; lower surfaces 
paler; dewlap pure white. (Specimens from various localities). 
Dimensions: — Total length 147 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 57 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 90 mm. 
Width of head 10.5 mm. 
Fore leg 13.5 mm. 
Hind leg 45 mm. 
This lizard is the most common and widely distributed of all the Cuban 
species which are strictly confined to a woodland habitat. We have found it 
in all of the provinces and in greater or less abundance in all the woodland areas 
examined. It is evidently most at home on the tree-trunks of some sunlit 
jungle glade where insects abound. In such spots the males may often be seen 
bobbing their heads up and down as they flash the pure white of their widely 
expanding dewlap. When shot or otherwise wounded their tail has a peculiar 
way of convulsively rolling up, which almost suggests a prehensile usage, such 
as we have never observed. Cope founded this species upon a specimen in the 
British Museum which had only ‘‘West Indies” as data. Until the type can 
be examined there will remain some doubt as to the real status of homolechis, 
for Cope’s description leaves much to be desired and even Boulenger’s was pub- 
lished before anyone realized how many were the species of Anolis and how 
similar many of them are to each other. 
38. ANOLIS RUBRIBARBUS, sp. Nov. 
Plate 9, fig. 2, 3. 
Lagartija. 
Diagnosis: — A rather stockily built Anolis, having in the male a high 
fin-like crest upon the tail, smooth ventral scales and a dewlap light red with a 
yellow margin and crossed obliquely by three bars of a much deeper red. 
Description: —Tyrr. Adult & M. C. Z. 11,941. Cuba: Oriente; El 
Puerto de Cananova, near Sagua de Tinamo, May, 1916. V. J. Rodriguez y 
Verrier. 
Top of head with two rather short and but slightly bowed ridges, enclosing 
a distinctly depressed area; ridges at their greatest width from each other 
