3. AXOLIS. 67 



roundish, with a vertebral seriea of enlarged scales, but no promi- 

 neut ridge ; its length more than twice that of head and body. No 

 enlarged postanal scales. Brownish or pale olive above, with dark- 

 brown or reddish-brown marblings ; four more or less distinct dark 

 cross bands on the body — the anterior, on the scapula, and the 

 posterior, on the sacrum, best defined ; a dark band from the eye 

 to above the tympanum ; lips with dark vertical bars ; lower sur- 

 faces greenish white, dotted with brown ; throat with dark-brown 

 marblings. 



Total length 302 millim. 



Head 2Ci 



Width of head 18 



Body 66 



Fore limb 35 



Hind limb 62 



Tibia 18 





Tail 210 



Mexico. 



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a-b. c? 2 • Mexico. 



c. Yg. Mexico. M. Sall^ [C.]. 



63. Anolis pulchellus. 



Anolius pulchellus, Gray, Cat. p. 204. 

 Anolis pulchellus, Dum. i^ Bibr. iv. p. 1)7 ; Reinh. ^- L'uth. Vidensk. 



Meddel. 1862, p. 257; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Alex., Rept. pi. xvi. 



fig. 28 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1876, p. 706. 

 Dactyloa (lleterulepis) pidchella, Fitzing. Si/st. Rept. p. 06. 



Head rather large, twice as long as broad, much longer than the 

 tibia ; forehead slightly concave, with two slightly diverging frontal 

 ridges ; upper head-scales faintl}' keeled or striated ; scales of the 

 supraorbital semicircles large, extending forwards as frontal series, 

 in contact between the orbits or separated by one series of scales ; 

 five to teu enlarged, keeled supraocular scales, separated from the 

 supraorbitals by one or two series of granules ; occipital a little 

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

 two to four series of scales ; canthus rostralis angular, canthal 

 scales three or four ; loreal rows four or five ; five or six labials to 

 below the centre of the eye ; ear-opening rather small, roundish- 

 subtriangular. Gular appendage moderately large, with widely 

 separated scales ; gular scales keeled. Body compressed ; no dorso- 

 nuchal fold. Dorsal scales nearly as large as ventrals, rhomboidal, 

 imbricate, keeled ; lateral scales very small, granular ; ventral 

 scales rhomboidal, strongly imbricate, keeled. Limbs moderate ; 

 the adpressed hind limb reaches the eye or the posterior border of 

 the orbit ; digits rather feebly dilated ; eighteen or nineteen lamelhc 

 under phalanges ii. and in. of the fourth toe. Tail strongly com- 

 pressed, with sharp, not distinctly serrated upper edge, its length 

 more than twice that of head and body. No enlarged postanal 



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