522 On a new Anolis /rom Brazil. 



nent, with distinct canthus rostralis ; interorbital space as 

 broad as the upper eyelids. Fingers very short, connected 

 by thick skin at the base, somewhat swollen at the end, first, 

 second, and fourth equal, third longest ; toes likewise very 

 short ^nd connected at the base, first and fifth equal, fourth a 

 little longer, second and third shortest ; palms and soles 

 warty, carpal and tarsal tubercles quite flat. The tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches the eye. Upper parts covered 

 with prominent warts of unequal sizes; lower parts with 

 smaller flat warts. Black ; throat and belly spotted or 

 marbled with bright yellow. Male without vocal sacs. 



From snout to vent 22 millim. 



Several specimens were found by Messrs. Quelch and 

 McConnell on the summit of Mount Roraima, between British 

 Guiana and Venezuela, at an altitude of 8500 feet. 



LXII. — Description of a neiv AnoMs from Brazil. 

 By G. A. BouLENGEE, F.R.S. 



Anolis holotropis. 



Head once and two thirds as long as broad, a little longer 

 than the tibia ; forehead scarcely concave ; frontal ridges 

 absent ; upper head-scales keeled, mostly tricarinate on the 

 snout ; scales of the supraorbital semicircles strongly en- 

 larged, in contact in the middle ; several enlarged supraocular 

 scales, separated from the supraorbitals by one series of 

 granules ; occipital larger than the ear-opening, separated from 

 the supraorbitals by two series of scales ; canthns rostralis 

 angular, canthal scales three ; loreal rows four or five ; seven 

 upper labials to below the centre of the eye ; ear-opening 

 small, oval. Gular appendage small ( ? ). Gular scales 

 keeled. Body cylindrical. Dorsal scales rather small, hexa- 

 gonal, strongly keeled, passing gradually into the minute 

 keeled granules of the sides; ventrals large, rhomboidal, 

 imbricate, strongly keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches 

 the posterior border of the orbit ; digits very feebly dilated ; 

 17 lamellge under phalanges II and III of the fourth toe. 

 Tail cylindrical, covered with equal keeled scales, once and 

 three fourths as long as head and body. Pale grey-brown 

 above, with a yellow vertebral stripe edged with reddish 

 brown; femur and tibia with a yellowish cross bar; pale 

 golden beneath. 



