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ANOLIUS CAROLINENSIS.— Cwmer. 



Plate VIII. 



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

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

 distensible fold of skin, or dewlap, under the throat; fingers and toes slender, 

 elongated, distinct. 



/ Synonymes. Lacerta viridis Carolinensis, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. li. tab. Ixv. 

 f Anolis bullaris, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 69. 



Green Carolina Lizard, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 243. 

 \ Anolius Carolinensis, Cuvier, Reg. An., torn. ii. p. 50. 



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



Dactyloa bullaris, TVugler, Natiirlich. Syst. der Amphib., p. 148. 

 \ Green Lizard, or Chameleon, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is much elongated, flattened, and canaliculated between 

 the orbits, full and rounded at the temples; the snout is rather obtuse; the nostrils 

 are placed at some distance behind its extremity, and open upwards and outwards. 

 The head is mostly covered with small, nearly equal sized, polygonal plates, with 

 a few larger ones, eight or nine in nmnber, disposed in a semicircle on the 

 superior orbital margins, which are somewhat prominent; those on the occipital 

 region are smallest of all, and surround a single plate of larger size. The mouth 

 is large; the upper jaw is armed with fifty or sixty teeth, and the lower with forty- 

 five or fifty; in both jaws the six or eight posterior teeth are the larger; the labial 

 plates are small, quadrilateral, and sixteen or eighteen in number. 



