3. ANOLIS. 89 



compressed ; no dorso-nuehal fold. Dorsal scales very small, rhom- 

 boidal, imbricate, keeled, graduating into the granular laterals ; 

 ventral scales much larger than dorsals, rhomboidal, imbricate, 

 strongly keeled. The adpressed bind limb reaches the anterior 

 border of the orbit, or between the latter point and the end of the 

 snout ; digits rather feebly dilated ; seventeen or eighteen (nine- 

 teen) lamella) under phalanges ii. and in. of the fourth toe. 

 Tail roundish, covered with strongly keeled scales, the median 

 dorsal series scarcely enlarged ; length of tail twice, or a little 

 more, that of head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Brownish 

 golden above, with large dark brown spots or angular markings ; 

 frequently one or two more or less defined white lateral bands ; 

 female sometimes with a broad light, dark-edged vertebral band ; 

 lower surfaces white, with golden and greenish metallic reflections. 



Total length 190 millim. 



Head IG ,, 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 44 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 51 



Tibia 15 



Tail 130 



5? 

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Central America to Venezuela and Ecuador. 



^~fj {/■ 6 2 • Lower Vera Paz. O. Salvin, Esq. [0.]. 



h. 2 • Duenas, Guatemala. O. Salvin, Esq. [C. 



i. S • Rio Polochic, Guatemala. O. Salvin, Esq. [C." 



k-l. (f . Leglioou. 



m. $ . Venezuela. 



w. 5 . Trinidad. C. Taylor, Esq. [P.] 



0. j. W.Ecuador. Mr. Eraser [C.]. 



99. Anolis chrysolepis. 



Draconura chrysolepis, Gray, Cat. p. 207. 

 Anolis chrysolepis, Dimi. l^- Bihr. iv. p. 94 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 



Rept. p. 99, pi. xvi. fig. 26 ; Fetcrs, ILm. Bed. Ac. 18G3, p. 142. 

 plauiceps, part., Trosch. in Schoinh. lieise Brit. Guian. iii. p. G49. 



nummifer, O'Shaughn. Ann. 8f May. N. II. (4) xv. 1875, 



p. 278. 



turmalis, O' Shauyhn. I. c. 



(Draconura) chrysolepis, part., CSlumyhn. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1881, p. 241. 



Head about once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or a 

 little shorter than the tibia ; forehead scarcely concave ; frontal 

 ridges absent or short and very feeble ; upi)er head-scales uni- or 

 tricarinate ; scales of the supraorbital semicircles sliglitly I'lilarged, 

 separated by one or two series of scales ; numerous enlarged, 

 strongly keeled supraocular scales ; occipital considerably larger 

 than the ear- opening, separated from the supraorbitals by two or 



