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the orbit. Ear-opening small, subround. Rostral medium, 

 longitudinally cleft above, in contact with two large scales 

 and a median small one between the nostrils. Labials 

 five to six. Lower labials five, the anterior subtending 

 the first upper and two-thirds of the second. Mental large ; 

 submentals two small ones in contact with the mental, and 

 behind these still smaller ones decreasing in size toward 

 the granules of the throat. A small spine-bearing scale 

 on the upper eyelid. Head and throat covered with keeled 

 granules, larger on the snout. Dorsal scales keeled, not 

 half as large as the ventrals; scales on the flank larger; 

 those of the belly still larger, smooth. Tail round, taper- 

 ing, covered by large smooth scales, except above the base 

 where a few are keeled. 



Pinkish or reddish brown, profusely sprinkled with 

 small spots of brown arranged in longitudinal series, occa- 

 sionally confluent. Between the hips on each side of the 

 middle there is a small white spot, in front of each of these, 

 another, and, behind each, one or two more, making a series 

 of three or four as if a white line had been broken up. 

 The lateral edges of these spots are dark brown. Head 

 lighter, with faint small spots of brown. Belly light, 

 lateral edges of scales puncticulate with brown. 

 Closely allied to $. argus of Jamaica. 



LUTEOSIGNIFER Sp. H. 



Compared with Anolis sagrce, with which it is closely 

 allied, this lizard is similar in size and shape and to some 

 extent in squamation. It is distinguished by less of con- 

 vexity on the snout, the rostral canthus being more prom- 

 inent and the scales less strongly keeled ; it has more 

 uniformity in the sizes of the dorsal scales ; and, from al- 

 coholic specimens only, its gular appendage seems to have 

 been yellow rather than red. 



