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limb reaches the temple or the eye ; digital expansions well deve- 

 loped ; thirty to thirty-two lamellte under phalanges ii. and iii. of 

 the fourth toe. Tail strongly compressed, with feebly serrated 

 upper edge, in the adult male with a high fin-like crest on its an- 

 terior half, supported by the much produced neural spines ; the 

 length of the tail equals nearly twice that of head and body. Male 

 with enlarged postanal scales. Brown or bluish above, with more 

 or less distinct bluish-white transverse bands, most regular on the 

 limbs ; head above yellowish brown ; belly white, uniform or brown- 

 spotted ; gular appendage yellow. 



Total length 416 millim. 



Head 46 „ 



Width of head 28 „ 



Body 100 „ 



Fore limb 63 „ 



Hind limb 108 „ 



Tibia 33 „ 



Tail 270 „ 



San Domingo. 



a. c? . San Domingo. 



h. § . San Domingo. M. Salle [C.]. (Type of 



Huprhtls haleatus.) 



3. Anolis cuvieri. 



Xiphosurus velifer, Gray, Cat. p. 197. 

 Cuv. R. A. ii. p. 42, pi. v. fig. 1. 

 Anolis cuvieri, Merr. Tent. p. 45. 

 Xiplinsurus cuvieri, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 48. 

 Dactyloa cuvieri, Wagl. Sijst. Amj)h. p. 148. 

 Anolis velifer, Gtfcr. Icon. R. A., Rept. pi. xii. fig. 1 ; 7>»?n. ^ Bibr. 



iv. p. 164 ; Rewh. ^- Liitk. Vidensh. Meddel. 1862, p. 260. 

 Ctenonotus (Semiurus) cuvieri; Fitzimj. Syst. Rept. p. 64. 



Head large, not quite twice as long as broad, much longer than 

 the tibia ; forehead and occiput concave ; anterior part of head 

 covered with hexagonal, flat, rugose scales ; scales of the supra- 

 orbital semicircles not enlarged ; supraocular scales small, with two 

 series of hexagonal, keeled, enlarged ones ; supraciliary edge very 

 prominent, foi'ming a small crest ; cauthus rostralis prominent ; 

 loreal rows five ; ten upper labials ; ear-opening vertically oval. 

 Gular appendage very large, extending posteriorly beyond the 

 thorax, nearly entirely naked. Body strongly compressed, with a 

 small serrated crest. Dorsal scales ovate-hexagonal, feebly keeled, 

 juxtaposed, separated by minute granules ; ventral scales as large 

 as dorsals, squarish, smooth, sul)imbricate. Limbs moderately elon- 

 gate ; the scales under the thiglis as largo as the vontrals ; digital 

 expansions well developed. Tail strongly compressed, in the male 

 wifh a high fin-like crest on its anterior half, supported by ihe 

 much-produced neural spines. Slaty blue above, flanks blackish : 



