THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 



ANOLIS PULCHELLUS Dumeril and Bibron (?). 

 Anolis pulchellus Dum6ril and Bibron, 1837, Erpet. G6n., vol. iv, p. 97. 



A single specimen in the U. S. National Museum (No.. 25651) seems to 

 belong to this Porto Rican species. It was collected by the naturalists of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish-hawk, during the expedition to Porto 

 Rico of 1899, and was found in a bottle labeled " Nassau, New Providence, 

 Dec. 25, 1898," containing specimens of Anolis distichus Cope and A.sagrei 

 Dumeril and Bibron. As no species of this group has been collected before in 

 the Bahamas, and as the possibility of the accidental misplacement of a Porto 

 Rican specimen is not excluded, no further reference to this species will be 

 made at present. 



ANOLIS SAGREI Dumeril and Bibron. 



Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron, 1837, Erpet. Gen., vol. iv, p. 149. 

 Anolis ordinatus Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 175. 



The relative status of these names is uncertain. The former was. orig- 

 inally described from Cuba by Dumeril and Bibron. The latter was described 

 by Cope from specimens in British Museum having no other locality than 

 " West Indies," and Boulenger, with the types before him, regards them as 

 identical.' Cope, in 1887, still maintains their distinctness, referring the 

 specimens from Turks Islands to A. ordinatus, and those from New Provi- 

 dence and Abaco to A. sagrei. 8 Garrnan, in the same year, regards A. ordinatus 

 as the Bahama variety of A. sagrei, recording specimens from New Providence 

 and the Florida Keys. 9 He has apparently not examined specimens from 

 Turks Islands, and it is quite possible, not to say probable, that these may 

 differ from those of the northern islands, but it is highly dubious if in that 

 case the name A. ordinatus is applicable to them. On the other hand, while 

 I am at present unable to point out any structural characters separating the 

 Bahama and Cuban specimens, thefe seems to be a constant difference in the 

 color of the naked skin of the dewlap. In all the Cu-ban examples, whether 

 preserved in alcohol or formalin, there is always a distinct trace of crimson, 

 while in all the Bahama specimens before me this skin is blackish, indicating 



7 Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., ii, 1885, p. 40. 



8 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 436. 



8 Bull. Essex Inst., xix, 1887, p. 47, author's reprint, p. 23. 



