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vermiculations in light iridescent tints. On young ones 

 there are five transverse bands on the body ; these indi- 

 viduals are more gray, or brown, than the large. 

 Hab. St. Lucia. Thirty-three specimens. 



ANOLIS VINCENTII, sp. n. 



Head of medium size, about one and three-fourths times 

 as long as wide, longer than the tibia, deeply concave 

 on the forehead and occiput, slightly depressed on the 

 snout ; frontal ridges distinct, not extending forward, 

 prominent and rough between the orbits in adults ; up- 

 per head scales not keeled ; scales of the supraorbital 

 semicircles large, more or less in contact between the 

 orbits ; nine to fourteen enlarged keeled supraoculars, 

 separated from the supraorbital series by a series of 

 granules ; occipital twice as large as the ear-opening, 

 anterior border rounded, in contact with the supraoc- 

 ulars ; canthus rostralis not very distinct, of two large 

 and two or three short scales ; loreal rows five to six ; 

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

 ear opening hardly half as large as the occipital, vertically 

 oval. Gular appendage large, reaching behind the thorax, 

 scales smooth. Body little compressed ; a slight dorso- 

 nuchal fold. Dorsal scales small, keeled, increasing in 

 size toward the two mesial rows which are largest. Ven- 

 tral scales smooth, subhexagonal, hardly imbricate, smaller 

 than a few of the antefernorals ; the latter moderate, 

 keeled, near the knee tricarinate. Limbs medium, the 

 ad pressed leg reaches the ear ; digital expansions not 

 large ; lamellae under phalanges ii and iii of the fourth toe 

 about twenty-six. Tail compressed, serrated on the upper 

 edge by large, sub-equal, pointed scales, more than twice 

 (two and one-fourth times) as long as head and body. 

 Postanals not enlarged. 



