26 ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



Unless otherwise specified the collections were made by 

 the writer. 



XIPHOCERCUS VALENCIENNII Dum. Bibr., 1837. 



A female has transverse bands of light brown on the 

 limbs, a band across the neck, another immediately be- 

 hind the shoulders and another in front of the thighs on 

 the flanks ; the tail is ringed with brownish ; between 

 the eye and the ear on each side of the head there is a 

 quadrangular space enclosed by four short narrow lines of 

 brown ; a streak of light color extends from the loreal re- 

 gion beneath the eye to the angle of the mouth ; the gular 

 fold is purple with a creamy border ; the lips are black ; 

 the upper and the lower surface of the head are whitish ; 

 there are short, narrow longitudinal streaks of brown ar- 

 ranged in transverse series on the flanks ; and along the 

 median line of the back there are several small, transverse 

 blotches of brownish, with others of light color. 



On a young one, less than an inch in length of body, 

 the markings are similar though much lighter ; a light 

 brown band crosses the supraoculars and passes down- 

 ward through the eye across the lips ; vertical lines of 

 brown cross both lips in front of the eyes ; the gular fold 

 is of a pink tint. In this little one the goitre is compar- 

 atively large, although the short snout, not longer than 

 the orbit, convex on the upper surface, the disproportion- 

 ate size of the eye and the bulged, swollen appearance of 

 the parietal region indicate that it had been but a short 

 time out of the egg. 



Kingston, Jamaica. 



ANOLIS EQUESTRIS Men-em, 1820. 



There are five large specimens in the collection which 

 are referred to this species. One of the lot is said to 



