192 IGUANID^. 



pressed scales in front of the gular appendage, below the chin. 

 Dorso-michal crest constantly rather lower. Yentral scales more 

 distinctly keeled. Nineteen or twenty femoral pores on each side. 

 Uniform green or blackish-olive, head yellowish. 



centim. centim. 



Total length 121 Fore limb IG 



Head 7 Hind limb 26 



Width of head 5 Tail 85 



Body 29 



West Indies ; Swan Islands ; Brazil. 



a. Ad., stiifted. ? 



b. 2 ■ ? Sir A. Smitli [P.]. 



c. d, e,f, (/, Jt, i. d , $ , & ligr- ? 



36. BRACHYLOPHUS. 



Brachyloplies, Cuv. R. A. 2ud ed. ii. p. 40. 



Brachylophiis, Wagler, Si/st. Amph. p. 151 ; Dtwi. ^- Bihr. iv. p. 225 ; 



Fitzing. Si/sf. liept. p. 5o ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 187. 

 Jouana, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 15. 

 Cliloroscartes, Gilnfli. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 188. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed ; a dorsal crest ; dorsal 

 scales small. Upper head-scales small. A transverse gular fold ; 

 male with a gular pouch. Digits compressed, with keeled lamelhB 

 inferiorly. A short series of femoral pores. Tail long, compressed. 

 Lateral teeth tricuspid ; pterygoid teeth. JN'o sternal foutanelle. 

 Abdominal ribs. 



Fiji and Friendly Islands. 



1. Brachylophus fasciatus. 



Brachylophus fasciatus, Gray, Cat. p. 187. 

 Iguana fasciata, Bronyn. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. 1880, p. 90, pi. vi. 



fig. 1 ; Daud. Rept. iii. p. 352. 

 Eracbvlopluis fasciatus, Wayl. I. c. ; Guer. Icoti. R. A., Rept. pi. ix. 



fig.l ; Bum. SrBibr. iv. p. 226; A. Bum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 64; 



Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 374, pi. xviii. tigs. 8, 9. 

 Iguana (Brachylophus) fasciatus, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn, p. 37. 

 Cbloroscartes fasciatus, Giinth, I. c. p. 189, pi. xxv. 



Head rather small ; snout rounded, with obtuse canthus rostralis ; 

 nostril near the tip of the snovit ; tympanum vertically oval, larger 

 than the eye-opening ; upper head-scales small, polygonal, smooth, 

 smallest on supraocular region ; occipital not enlarged ; six or seven 

 upper and as many lower labials ; mental with median cleft pos- 

 teriorly ; gular region covered with round or oval smooth granules 

 intermixed with smaller ones. Dorso-nuchal crest a feebly serrated 

 ridge, a little more developed on the nape. Dorsal scales minute, 

 equal, keeled ; ventrals larger, though very small, strongly keeled. 

 Limbs covered with uniform small keeled scales ; the adpressed hind 



