3. ATfOLIS. 91 



Head once and two thirds as lon^^ as broad, as long as or a little 

 shorter than the tibia ; forehead slightly concave ; frontal ridges 

 distinct, short ; upper head-scales small, keeled ; scales of the 

 supraorbital semicircles slightly enlarged, separated by three or 

 four (two) series of scales ; numerous slightly enlarged, keeled 

 supraocular scales ; occipital nearly as large as the ear-opening, 

 separated from the supraorbitals by three or four series of scales ; 

 canthus rostralis angular, canthal scales two or three; loreal rows 

 eight to ten ; eight to ten labials to below the centre of the eye ; 

 ear-opening moderately large, oval, horizontal, slightly oblique. 

 Gular api:)endage small, nearly as much developed in the female as 

 in the male ; gular scales keeled. Body not or but feebly com- 

 pressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales very small, slightly 

 larger than the minute, granular, keeled laterals, rhomboidal, 

 juxtaposed, keeled ; ventrals large, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly 

 keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the tip of the snout or a 

 little beyond ; digits very feebly dilated ; seventeen to nineteen 

 lamella3 under phalanges ii. and iii. of the fourth toe. Tail 

 rounded, covered with equal keeled scales, usually at least twice as 

 long as head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Olive or 

 brownish above, with metallic reflections ; back usually with large 

 angular dark spots, sometimes confluent into a zigzag band or 

 series of rhombs ; female sometimes with a broad light, dark-edged 

 vertebral band ; a dark transverse band between the eyes ; lower 

 surfaces whitish, with metallic reflections ; a large dark blue spot 

 on each side of the gular appendage ; usually a blackish streak 

 along the middle of the belly in the female. 



Total length 241 millim. 



Head 21 ,. 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body 57 „ 



Fore limb 45 ,, 



Hind hmb 78 „ 



Tibia 24 „ 



Tail 163 „ 



Venezuela to Upper Amazons. 



a. $. Caracas. (Typo.) 



6, c, d. 2 • Canelos, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C.]. 



e. 2 • Pallatauga, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [CI. 



f. 6 • Peruvian Amazons. Mr. Bartlett [C.]. 



101. Anolis nitens. 



Di'aconura nitens, Gray, Cat. p. 207. 

 Draconura nitens, IFar/l. Si/.sf. Rcpt. p. 140. 

 Anolis refulgens {Scldvg.), Diim. ^y L'ihr. iv. p. 01. 



planiceps, part., Trondi. in Schomb. Rcise Brit. Guian. iii. 



p. G40. 



(Draconura) nitens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1803, p. 142 ; 



Bocourt, Miss. Sc, Mex,, Rcpt. pi. xvi. fig. 25. 



