7. Anolis stratulus. 



Anolis stratulus, Cope, lYoc. Ac. Philad. 1801, p. 209 ; Reinh. 8)- 

 Liitk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p, 255; Bvcourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 

 Hept. pi. xiv. fig. 11. 



Head moderate, once and three fourths to twice as long as broad, 

 longer than the tibia ; snout rather strongly depressed ; forehead 

 concave, with two feeble ridges ; upper head-scales smooth ; scales 

 of the supraorbital semicircles very large, in contact between the 

 orbits or separated by one series of scales, extending forwards on 

 each side as frontal series ; seven to ten enlarged, smooth supra- 

 ocular scales, separated from the supraorbitals by one row of 

 granules ; occipital a little larger than the ear-opening, separated 

 from the supraorbital semicircles by one or two series of scales ; 

 canthus rostralis angular, canthal scales four or five ; loreal rows 

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

 ear-opening moderately large, vertically suboval. Gidar appendage 

 large, extending posteriorly beyond the thorax, not developed in 

 the female ; gular scales smooth. Body rather short, feebly com- 

 pressed, without dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales small, granular, 

 scarcelj' enlarged on the vertebral line ; ventral scales much larger, 

 roundish-hexagonal, subimbricate, smooth. Limbs moderately long; 

 the adprcsscd hind limb reaches the eye ; digital expansions well 

 developed ; eighteen to twenty-one lamella3 under phalanges ii. and 

 III. of the fourth toe. Tail compressed, with unequally serrated 

 upper edge, its length not twice that of head and body. Male with 

 enlarged postanal scales. Pale greyish or brownish above, with 

 rather indistinct darker marblings, and four large darb-brown, 

 sometimes white-edged, spots on the vertebral line ; lower surfaces 

 whitish, throat spotted or marbled with brown. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Head 15 



Width of head 8 



Body 30 



Fore limb 19 



Hind Hmb 31 



Tibia 10 



Tail 60 



?5 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 



55 



Porto Eico and Virgin Islands. 



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a. Several spec, cJ $• St. Tliomas. Ilr. Riise [C.]. 



h. (S ■ Danish \V. Indies. Copenliageu Museum. 



