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brown disposed in irregular transverse bands, and a 

 very large goitre of pale orange. This is the most 

 common Lizard around Kingston, but is unknown 

 at the leeward end of the island. The Purple-tail, 

 on the other hand, attains a superior development 

 both of form and colour in the Kingston district. 

 The vegetation in these parts and in the eastern 

 parts of St. Elizabeth {ex. gr. Starvegut Bay and 

 Pedro Bluff) have a common character : species of 

 Inga, Acacia, and Prosopis abound, intermingled 

 with the beautiful Lignum vitse {Guaiacum offici- 

 nale), and enormous Cacti, (C. repandus, and C. 

 Peruvianus) known as Dildoes. This is a botanical 

 character widely different from that presented around 

 Bluefields. 



The other Anoles that I have met with in Jamaica 

 are rare. The one, a new species of Draconura (the 

 Chain-marked Anolis), I know only by a single speci- 

 men. The other, of which three individuals have 

 come under my observation, is the Plate-headed 

 Anolis, which exhibits characters that I have thought 

 to demand the constitution of a new genus for its 

 reception.* It is a handsome Lizard, of a delicate 

 greenish-white, crossed by irregular bands of black, 

 particularly conspicuous on the tail ; the goitre is 

 large, and of a dark lake-crimson. The male is bold 

 and fierce in self-defence, biting with such energy as 

 to pierce the skin of the hand : the female, which is 

 less distinctly marked, is timid, making no effort to 

 bite when held in the hand ; is more slender, and has 



* These are described in the Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist, for 

 November, 1850, as Draconura catenata and Placopsis ocellata. 



