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10 ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



Anolis cepedii Merrem, 1820. 



St. Pierre, Ft. de France, and Morne Rouge, Martin- 

 ique. Seventy-four specimens. 



Anolis gentilis, var. n. 



Head moderate, about one and two-thirds times as long 

 as broad, longer than the tibia ; forehead with very little 

 concavity ; frontal ridges low ; upper head scales smooth ; 

 scales in the supraorbital semicircles enlarged, the ante- 

 rior one in each as large as throe of the other four, the an- 

 terior four of each series in contact with the oi)posite four, 

 and the hinder pair of each in contact with the enlarged 

 occipital ; the scales forward from the largest supraorbital 

 rather small ; internarials narrow, elongate ; nine to four- 

 teen enlarged feebly keeled supraoculars ; canthus rostralis 

 angular, canthal scales five or six ; loro;d lows four, rarely 

 five ; six or seven labials to below the centre of the eye. 

 Ear opening half as large as the occipital scale, vertically 

 oblong. Gular appendage moderate, covered with smooth 

 scales. A low dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales keeled, 

 small, larger in two or more of the vertebral rows, smaller 

 on the flanks ; ventrals still larger than the dorsals, smooth ; 

 antefemorals larger than the ventrals, keeled. The ad- 

 pressed hind limb hardly reaches the orbit; digital exjjan- 

 sions laiger than the average, twenty-two lainella? under 

 phalanges ii and iii of fourth toe. Male with a pair of en- 

 larged p(;st-anal scales. Tail compressed, twice as long 

 as head and body ; a dorsal series of large compressed sub- 

 equal scales forms a crest ; ventral series large, and strongly 

 keeled in the two median rows. 



Light grayish brown, with greenish, yellowish, or me- 

 tallic tints ; whitish beneath ; willifive to seven l)road trans- 

 verse badly defined l)ands of bi-ownish between the head 

 and the tail; legs and arms with similar bands; body 



