3. AN0LI8. 83 



milliiii. millira. 



Total length OU Pore limb 17 



Head 12 Hind Umb 32 



Widtli of head .... 7 Tibia 10 



iiody 24 Tail 54 



Central America. 



a. Several spec., c? 5 . Vera Paz. 0. Salvin, Esq. [C.l. 



87. Anolis quaggulus. 

 Anolis quag'gulus, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 391. 



Closely allied to A. Jixmilis. Seven rows of truncate and keeled 

 dorsal scales, much larger thaa the ventrals. General colour 

 golden green ; a series of blackish chevrons on the back, with the 

 angle directed posteriorly, and with the lateral branches thickened 

 anteriorly ; from the apex of each branch a delicate blackish line 

 descends vertically, stopping on the side below its middle, thus 

 dividing the side into vertical areas. 



From snout to vent 32 millim, 



Nicaragua, 



88. Anolis tropidonotus. 



Anolis tropidonotus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 186.3, p. 135, and Ann. ^• 

 Mar/. N. II. (4) iv. 1869, p. 273 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Max., Pept., 

 p. 103, pis. xiii. fig. G, and xvi. fig. 30. 



Norops auratus, (^non Dand.) 0'' Shauylm. Ann. Sf Mcuj. N. H. (4) iii. 

 1869, p. 188, and iv. p. 274. 



tropidonotus, O'' Shaur/hn. eod. loc. (4) xv. 1875, p. 277. 



Head about once and f.wo thirds as long as broad, not, or scarcely, 

 longer than the tibia ; forehead concave ; frontal ridges feebly 

 marked, short and divergent : all the upper head-scales strongly 

 keeled ; scales of the supraorbital semicircles scarcely enlarged, 

 separated by two series of scales ; a few enlarged supraoculars ; occi- 

 pital scarcely enlarged ; canthus rostralis angular ; loreal rows six 

 or seven ; six or seven labials to below the centre of the eye ; car- 

 opening large, vertically oval. Gular appendage large ; gular scales 

 keeled. Body short, compressed ; no dorso-nuchal fokl. Dorsal 

 scales very large, larger than ventrals, rhomboidal, imbricate, sharply 

 keeled, forming about twelve longitudinal series ; lateral scales small, 

 imbricate, keeled ; ventrals rhomboidal, pointed, sharply keeled. The 

 adpressed hind limb reaches the end of the snout ; digits very sliglitly 

 dilated ; fourteen or fifteen lamella) under plialanges ti. and iir. of the 

 fourth toe. Tail slightly compressed, not twice as long as head and 

 body. No enlarged postanal scales. Eronzy or golden above, 

 uniform, or with ill-dclincd dark brown spots ; a rather indistinct 

 dark cross baud between the eyes ; lower surfaces pale golden. 



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