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dilated digits — more alert and less deliberate in their move- 

 ments. When examined the species proved to be the rare 

 and little known L,athrogecko sanctae-martae Ruthven. 



Their color is very characteristic and varies but little. 

 They are rich mahogany brown above and grey below. A 

 narrow, light lateral line decorates each side and is most con- 

 spicuous on the posterior half of the trunk and fades on the 

 basal third of the tail or does not extend so far. A conspicu- 

 ous light marking shaped like a horseshoe encircles the occi- 

 put and two white lines extend from in front of the eyes to 

 meet on the tip of the snout. The belly is immaculate, the 

 tail reticulated and speckled below. 



A considerable series was secured. The head scales afford 

 poor diagnostic features. 



The woodland Anoles were rare. One day brought to bag 

 what is probably the giant Anolis latifrons Bertholdt. This 

 lizard has a great apple-green throat fan with small, dark 

 spots and is a striking creature in life. Previously known 

 only by the type from Popoyan, it is easy to see how Ber- 

 thold's figures may have misled Boulenger. The drawing 

 (Verb. Ges. Gottingen 3, 1847, p. 6, pi. i, fig. 2), where it is 

 not frankly diagrammatic, is fairly accurate, so far as the 

 topography of the cephalic shields is concerned, but the sculp- 

 turing is apparently not drawn in. In reality the head scales 

 are rougher than in A. sqitamiilatus, instead of the reverse as 

 stated by Boulenger (Cat. Lizards B. M., 2, 1885, p. 62). 

 The real character easily separating the two species is the 

 presence in latifrons of a series of enlarged tubercle-like scales 

 along the supraocular margin. In squamulatus, which we did 

 not take, but which is well represented in the U, S. National 

 Museum, the small granular scales extend from the supra- 

 ocular disc to the very edge of the area over the eye, quite 



