AN O LI \J 8. —Cuvier. 



Genus Anolius. — Characters. Head elongated; jaws and palate furnished 

 with small, sharp, notched teeth; tongue soft, fleshy, neither cleft nor extensile; 

 body elongated, covered with minute scales; tail cylindrical, very long, verticillated; 

 the skin beneath the penultimate joint of the fingers and toes is spread out into 

 an oval disk, transversely striated. 



ANOLIUS CAROLINENSIS.— Cwvier. 



Plate VII. 



Characters. Head flattened and greatly elongated, covered with minute scales; 

 nostrils distant from the end of the snout; tail very long, verticillate; a dilatable 

 sac under the throat; fingers and toes elongated. 



Synonymes. Lacerta viridis Carolinensis, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 65. 

 Anolius Carolinensis, Cuvier, Regn. Anim., torn. ii. p. 50. 

 Anolius bullaris, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. vi. p. 16., non Linn. 

 Dactyloa, Wagler, Naturlich. Syst. der Amph., p. 148. 

 Green Lizard or Chameleon, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is very much elongated and slightly flattened, canali- 

 culated between the orbits, full and rounded at the temples; the snout is rather 

 obtuse; the nostrils are directed upwards and outwards, and are placed at some 



