3. ANOLIS. 29 



cally suboval. Gular appendage moderately large ; giilar scales 

 smooth. Body short, not measuring twice the length of the head 

 in the male, compressed ; male' with a very slight dorso-nuchal fold. 

 Dorsal scales vcrj^ small, granular, smaller still on the flanks ; a 

 double series of enlarged obtusely keeled scales on the vertebral line ; 

 ventral scales much larger, nearly as large as the scales on the 

 anterior face of the femur, roundish-hexagonal, imbricate, perfectly 

 smooth. Limbs moderately long ; the adpressed hind limb reaches 

 the eye ; digital expansions well developed ; eighteen to twenty -one 

 lamellae under phalanges ir. and in. of the fourth toe. Tail 

 strongly compressed, covered with unequal-sized scales, forming 

 distinct segments, with a strong unequally serrated upper ridge ; 

 its length not twice that of head and body. Male with enlarged 

 postanal scales. Greyish or pale buff above, with more or less 

 distinct darker spots or variegations ; a light, dark-edged band from 

 axil to groin ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 140 millim. 



Head 21 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



Body 39 „ 



Fore limb 28 „ 



Hind limb 46 „ 



Tibia 14 



i> 



Tail 80 ,, 



Anguilla Island, W. Indies. 

 a-c.(S2- Anguilla Island. W. J. Cooper, Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 



10. Anolis leachii. 



Auolius leachii. Gray, Cat. p. 200. 



reticulatus, Grai/, I. c. p. 204. 



? Lacerta bimaculata, Sparrm, Vetensk. Acad. Handl. v. 1784, p. 179, 



pi. iv. fig. 4. 

 Anolis leachii, Dum, ^ Bihr. iv. p. 152 ; Coiie, Proc. Ac. Philad. 



1871, p. 221 ; Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., Rept. pi. xiv. fig. 13. 



maculatus, Gray, Ann. i^- Blay. N. H. v. 1840, p. 112. 



reticulatus, Gray, I. c. p. 114. 



Ctenonotus Inmacidatus, Fitziny. Syst. Rept. p. 64. 



Xiphosvu'us ferreus, Coi)e, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 168. 



Anolis alliaceus, Cope, I. c. p. ] 7o. 



bimaculatus, O^Shatiyhn. An7i. c^ May. N. II. (4) xv. 1875, 



p. 272. 

 Xiphosurus oculatus, Cope, Proc. Am, Phil. Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 274. 



Head moderate, once and a half to once and three fourths as long 

 as broad, longer than the tibia ; cheeks strongly swollen in the f ull- 

 growu male ; forehead and occiput concave in the adult male, the 

 former with two distinct ridges ; upper head-scales not keeled ; 

 scales of the supraorbital semicircles large, in contact between the 

 orbits, or separated by one row of scales, these enlarged scales 



