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TGUANID^. 



five ; loreal rows six or seven ; nine to eleven labials to below the 

 centre of the eye ; ear-opening moderate, oval. Gular appendage 

 small in the half-grown male, slightly indicated in the female ; 

 gular scales keeled. Body slightly compressed ; no distinct dorso- 

 nuchal fold. Dorsal and lateral scales granular and feebly keeled, 

 the former not larger, or even somewhat smaller, than the latter ; 

 ventrals much larger, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly keeled. The 

 adpressed hind limb reaches between the ear and the posterior 

 border of the orbit ; digital expansions well developed ; twenty-two 

 or twenty-three lamellae under phalanges ii. and iii. of the fourth 

 toe. Tail round or slightly compressed, with slightly prominent 

 upper edge ; its length more than twice that of head and body. No 

 enlarged postanal scales. Brown above, marbled with darker, and 

 with scattered small black spots and occasionallj^ also with yellowish 

 ones ; lower surfaces whitish or brownish. 



Total length 330 millim. 



Head 29 „ 



Width of head 17 „ 



Body 69 „ 



Fore limb 41 „ 



Hind limb 73 „ 



Tibia 21 „ 



Tail 232 „ 



Central America, Ecuador. 



C. 



c. 

 c. 



One of 



the types of A.fraseri.) 



62. Anolis petersii. 



Anolls hiporcatus, {non Wiegm.) Cope, Proc. Ac. Philacl. 1871, 



p. 215. 

 petersii, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 79, pis. xiii. fig. 2, 



& XV. fig. 11. 



Head once and a half or once and three fifths as long as broad, 

 considerably longer than the tibia ; forehead concave, no frontal 

 ridges ; upper head-scales small, rugulose or slightly keeled ; scales 

 of the supraorbital semicircles a little enlarged, separated by one 

 or two series of scales ; supraocular scales small, feebly keeled ; 

 occipital very small ; canthus rostralis angular, canthal scales five ; 

 six or seven loreal series ; nine to eleven upper labials to below the 

 centre of the eye; ear-opening small, oval. Gular appendage 

 moderate : gular scales granular, obtusely keeled. Body com- 

 pressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal and lateral scales equal, 

 small, granular, keeled ; ventrals larger, small, subquadrilateral, 

 imbricate, keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the ear-open- 

 ing or slightly beyond ; digital expansions well developed ; twenty- 

 seven lamellse under phalanges ii. and iii. of the fourth toe. Tail 



