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SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 163 
42. ANOLIS PORCATUS Gray. 
Plate 14, fig. 9. 
Lagartija verde. 
Diagnosis: — A depressed brilliant green or brown Anolis, with an elongate, 
flattened head with strong rugose scales, the digits greatly dilated, the tail 
round and the dewlap light carmine, the gular scales being white. 
Description: — Adult #@ M. C. Z. 10,881. Cuba: Pinar del Rio; Guane, 
March, 1915. Thomas Barbour. 
Top of head with strong heavy parallel ridges upon the elongate snout; 
all the head-seales heavily keeled or strongly rugose; six scales in a row between 
the nostrils; supraocular semicircles elevated and very rugose, separated by a 
row of rugose scales; occipital and ear opening small, of about the same size; 
supraocular dises not strongly defined, composed of about twelve rugose scales; 
separated from the semicircles by a row of keeled scales; canthus rostralis 
extremely prominent, long, composed of five or six large seales, extending 
backward a single long scale forms a short superciliary ridge; loreal rows, three; 
subocular semicircles long, composed of keeled scales in contact with supra- 
oculars; nine or ten slightly rugose supralabials, the seventh under the eye; 
temporals rather large and flat, all about the same size, no trace whatsoever of 
a supratemporal line; scales of back and sides, equal, often faintly keeled and 
with a slight tendency to imbricate; ventrals not much larger than laterals, 
faintly keeled and slightly imbricate; scales of anterior aspect of fore and hind 
limbs not enlarged; body elongate, depressed; a very inconspicuous nuchal 
and dorsal fold; limbs medium long, with large digital dilations; the adpressed 
hind limb reaches to about the ear opening; about thirty-two lamellae under 
phalanges II and III of the fourth toe; tail long, round or slightly depressed 
at the base, with verticils weakly indicated at four scale intervals, scales of 
limiting row not greatly enlarged; postanals not enlarged. 
Colour (in life): — Body and tail usually grass-green, the head (in adult 
males) often sky-blue; the colour may change to green with a rufous dorsal 
stripe or to brown variously streaked and vermiculated with green or vice versa. 
The throat and lower surfaces are often sparingly streaked and dotted with 
dark brown. The belly is whitish; the dewlap skin is light carmine, the scales 
being white, the carmine in adult males is extended to form a rather large pink 
spot upon the throat. 
