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47. Anolis pimctatus. 



Ehinosaurus gi-acilis, Gi'ciy, Cat. p. 199. 



Anolius pimctatus, Gray, I. c. p. 205. 

 Anolis punctatus, Band. Rept. iv. p. 84, pi. xlviii. fig. 2 ; Bum. 8r 

 Bibr. iy. p. 112; Guichen. in Casteln. Amer. Mer., Rept. Tp. 16; 

 O'Shaiighn. Froc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 241. 



gracilis, Wicd, Reise Bras. ii. p. 131, and Ahhikl. 



viridis, Wied, I. c. p. 1.32, and Ahhild. 



violaceus, Sjji.v, Lac. Bras. p. 1 5, pi. xvii. fig. 2. 



nasicus, Butn. <$• Bihr. p. 115 ; Guichen. I. c. p. 17, pi. iv. fig. 2 . 



Ptychonotus (Eunotus) gracilis, Fitziyig. Syst. Rept. p. 65, 

 Dactyloa (Eudactyhis) punctata, Fitziny. I. c. p. 67. 



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

 than the tibia ; end of snout truncate in the female, pointed, com- 

 pressed, and projecting in the male ; forehead and interorbital space 

 concave ; no frontal ridges ; upper head-scales smooth ; scales of 

 the supraorbital semicircles large, in contact or separated by one 

 or two series of scales ; a few slightly enlarged, more or less dis- 

 tinctly keeled, supraocular scales ; occipital as large as or a little 

 larger than the ear-opening, separated from the supraorbitals by 

 two or three series of scales ; canthus rostalis sharp, canthal scales 

 four ; loreal rows four to six ; seven to nine upper labials to below the 

 centre of the eye ; ear-opening moderately large, suboval. Gular 

 appendage well developed in the male, very small in the female ; 

 gular scales smooth or obtusely keeled. Body compressed in the 

 male, with a slight dorso-nuchal fold. Scales small, granular, 

 smooth, scarcely larger on the back than on the sides ; ventrals 

 larger, roundish, subimbricate, smooth. The adpresscd hind limb 

 reaches the posterior border of the tympanum or between the 

 latter and the ear-opening ; digital expansions well developed ; 

 twenty-six to twenty-eight lamellae under phalanges ii. and iii. 

 of the fourth toe. Tail feebly compressed, without dorsal series of 

 enlarged scales; its length about twice that of head and body. 

 Male with or without enlarged postanal scales. Purplish above, 

 with scattered round white dots ; female sometimes with a vertebral 

 series of elongate lighter spots ; lower surfaces greenish- or purplish- 

 white. 



Total length 262 millim. 



Head 24 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



Body 58 „ 



Fore limb 33 „ 



Hind limb 59 



Tibia 18 



Tail 180 



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Brazil and Upper Amazons. 



a. (S . Brazil. 



h-c,d. (S2- Rio .Taneiro. G. Busk, Esq. [P.]. 



e. (S . Peruvian Amazons. Mr. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



f, (S . Cayaria, Peru. Messrs. Veitcli [P.J. 



