3. ANOLIS. 77 



not or but slij^htlj- compressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales 

 oval, subrhomboidal, subimbricate, keeled, a little smaller than the 

 veutrals, passing gradually into the laterals, which are minutely 

 granular ; ventrals rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly keeled. The 

 adpresscd hind limb reaches the posterior border of the orbit, or 

 nearly that point ; digital expansions moderate ; thirteen to six- 

 teen lamellae under phalanges ii. and iii. of the fourth toe. Tail 

 cylindrical, not twice as long as head and body, covered with 

 equal strongly keeled scales. !Male with enlarged postanal scales. 

 Brownish above, with dark brown spots, sometimes arranged in 

 a double longitudinal series on the back, or forming angular 

 cross bars with the angle pointing backwards; a moro or less 

 distinct dark streak from the eye to the nape ; sometimes black 

 lines radiating from the eye ; limbs with dark cross bands ; lower 

 surfaces whitish ; gular appendage grey or brown. 



Total length 153 millim. 



Head 14 „ 



Width of head 8-5 „ 



Body 34 ., 



Fore limb '20 „ 



Hind limb 34 „ 



Tibia 10 „ 



Tail 105 „ 



Mexico. 



a. c? . Cuernavaca. Paris Museum [P.j. 



b-c. J. Jalapa. Mr. Iloege [0.] ; F. D. Godmaii, 



Esq. [P.']. 

 d~h. (S, $,& hgi-. Veutanas. Hr. A. Forrer [C.l. 



t-^, l-n. d", $, &hgr. Presidio. Hr, A. Forrer I C. 



o-q. (S . Tres Marias. Hr. A. Forrer [C". 



78. Anolis nehuloides. 



Anolis uebuloides, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Repf. p. 74, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 10. 



Very closely allied to A. nehulosus, from which it differs only in 

 the following points : — Scales on the snout feebly tricarinate ; supra- 

 orbital semicircles usually separated by one scries of scales ; eai'- 

 opening larger, its vertical diameter nearly equalling the length of 

 the occipital ; dorsal scales larger, nearly as large as the ventrals. 



Mexico. 



a-b. c?. Huamuchla. 



79. Anolis palpebrosiis. 



Auolis palpebrosus, Peters, Mu)i. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 740. 



Closely allied to A. uebnlosus. Head as long as the tibia ; scales 

 on the anterior half of the snout keeled ; supraorbital semicircles 



