3. ANOLIS. 33 



in the male, with a series of eularged strongly keeled scales supe- 

 riorly ; its length not twice that of head and body, ilale with 

 slightly enlarged postanal scales. Green, purplish, or brownish 

 above, usually with darker reticulation enclosing round light spots ; 

 females sometimes with a few angular cross bars on the back, with 

 or without a light vertebral baud ; throat with dark reticulation. 



Total length IGG 119 millim. 



Head 21 14 „ 



Width of head 13 8 „ 



Body 45 32 „ 



Fore limb 30 21 „ 



Hind limb 50 33 „ 



Tibia 15 10 



Tail 100 73 



»5 



>5 



Jamaica. 



a. 2 ■ ? Sir J. MacGregor [P. 1. ( .^^ ^ 



b-c,d-f. d?. ? [(Types.) 



(l-h. S. ? 



i.(S- ? Bristol Museum [P.]. 



k. S . Jamaica. Capt. Parry [P.]. 



1-771, n-o, p. J. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Types 



of -4. iodurus.) 

 q. 2 • Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Type 



of A. opalinm.) 

 r-s. (^ . Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 



13. Anolis distichiis. 



Anolis distichiis, Cope, Froc. Ac. Philad. 18G1, p. 208, and P roc. Am. 



Philos. Soc. xi. ISiJO, p. 164. 



dominicensis, Reinh. 8f Liifk. Vidensh. Meddel. 1862, p. 261. 



brevirostris, Bocuurt, Nimv. Arch. Mus. vi. 1870, Bull. p. 11, 



and Miss. Sc. Max., Rept. pi. xiv. tig. 6. 



Head rather short, once and a half as long as broad, a little 

 longer than the tibia ; forehead concave, frontal ridges distinct ; 

 upper head-scales smooth or a little rugose ; scales of the supra- 

 orbital semicircles very large, in contact between the orbits, extend- 

 ing forwards as frontal series ; six to eight large, smooth supra- 

 ocular scales, separated from the supraorbitals by one or two rows 

 of granules ; occipital much larger than the ear-opening, in contact 

 with the supraorbitals, or separated by one series of scales ; canthus 

 rostralis angular, canthal scales three ; loreal rows four ; five labials 

 to below the centre of the eye ; ear-oponiiig rather small, suboval. 

 Gular appendage rather small, absent in the female ; gular scales 

 smooth. Body scarcely compressed, without dorso-nuchal fold. 

 Dorsal scales minute, granular, all equal ; ventral scales larger, 

 roundish, juxtaposed or sul)imbricate, Kmootli. Limbs modtM-alely 

 long ; the adprcsscd hind limb reaches the eye or the anterior border 



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