68 ANOLIUSCAROLINENSIS. 



distance from the end of the snout; the eyes are rather small, but brilliant; the 

 pupil black, the iris burnished gold; the membrane of the tympanum is visible, the 

 entrance to it, contracted, very small; mouth large; the jaws are covered with 

 small whitish plates. Under the throat is a sac, which can be dilated or distended 

 with air at the will of the animal, when it becomes of a bright vermilion. 



The body is elongated, but hardly cylindrical, the abdomen being broader and 

 the spine narrower, giving it at times a triquetrous form. The head and body 

 are covered with scales so extremely minute, as to give the whole surface a 

 granulated appearance. The tail is cylindrical, very long, and covered with larger 

 and verticillated scales. 



The anterior extremities are rounded; the skin on the under surface of the 

 penultimate phalanges of the four external fingers, is spread out into an oval disk, 

 with transverse striae, by means of which the animal can attach itself to smooth 

 surfaces; the fingers are five in number, each provided with a small, short, very 

 delicate and curved nail. The posterior extremities are longer, and terminate 

 in five toes, provided with the same number of nails; the penultimate phalanges 

 are arranged in the same manner as in the fingers. 



Colour. The whole superior surface of the head, body, tail and extremities, is 

 of a beautiful golden green; the abdomen, greenish- white; the sac under the throat 

 becomes vermilion when inflated; the inferior surface of the extremities is white, 

 clouded with green; the superior surface of the fingers and toes is brown, and the 

 inferior surface of the same colour. We observe frequently a black band on the 

 temple, and a row of small black dots along the superior surface of the tail, as 

 represented in the accompanying plate; but these all disappear when the animal 

 assumes its greenest tint. 



In giving this as the ordinary colour of the Anolius Carolinensis, it must be 

 remembered that the colour varies greatly at different times, according to the 

 season of the year, the weather, health of the animal, activity of the circulation, 



