3. asolis. 87 



rior border of the orbit. Tail entirely cylindrical, covered with 

 strongly keeled scales, about twice the length of head and body. 

 Colour Icek-grecn, tinged with brown anteriorly ; a brown baud 

 between the eyes ; a crescentic brown band upon the occiput, angu- 

 larly bordered with black anteriorly, and having a median longitu- 

 dinal black spot ; a similar small black spot upon the nape at the 

 confluence of two oblique pale brown bands, one from each orbit, 

 often paler-bordered inferiorly ; the pale border sometimes extending 

 to near the groin as a narrow longitudinal band; a third small black 

 spot upon the interscapular region ; three or four largo brown 8})ot8 

 upon the posterior part of the dorsal region ; sides and labial region 

 varied with brown ; extremities and digits obliquely banded with 

 the same ; belly immaculate, the reflections golden and green. 



Total length 72 millim. 



Yeragua. 



96. Anolis tr achy derma. 



Anolis trachyderma, Cope, Joiirn. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 187G, p. 168. 



Head oval, as long as the tibia ; forehead concave, frontal ridges 

 obsolete ; upper head-scales keeled ; ten keeled, enlarged supraocular 

 scales ; occipital small, nearly eijual to ear, separated from the supra- 

 orbitals by two rows of scales ; six loreal rows in the middle ; nine 

 upper labials. Gular appendage large. Three or four median dorsal 

 series, nearly as large as the ventrals, flat, keeled, and quickly 

 graduating into the granular angulate scales of the sides ; ventral 

 scales small, obtusely keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the 

 middle of the orbit. Tail round, covered with flat, keeled scalers. 

 Colour black above and below, excepting thorax, abdomen, and inferior 

 middle line of tail, which are fulvous ; an indistinct light band across 

 the chin, half way between eye and nostril. 



From snout to vent .... 55 millim. 



Head, to ear 19 „ 



Width of head 8 „ 



Hind limb 45 



It 



Nauta, Upper Amazons. 



97. Anolis stigmosus. 



Anolis stigmosus, Bocourt, Koiiv. Arch. Mus. v. 18G9, Bull p. 43, 

 and Miss. Sc. 3Ie.v., licpt. pi. xv. fig. 13. 



Head once and three fourths as long as broad, as long as or 

 slightly shorter than the tibia ; snout rather pointed ; forehead 

 slightly concave, frontal ridges very short ; upper head-scales 

 keeled ; scales of the supraorbital semicircles a little cnhu-ged, sepa- 

 rated by two or three series of scales ; ten or twelve enlarged, 

 strongly keeled supraocular scales, separated from the supraorbitals 

 by one series of granules ; occiiiital not (juite as large as the ear- 

 opening, separated from the supraorbitals by three or four series of 



