Vol. 5, p. 167-168. June 24, 1925. 



Occasional Papers 



OF THE 



Boston Society of Natural History. 



A NEW CUBAN ANOLIS. 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 



It has been the fashion latterly to describe Anoles from Cuba 

 for Dr. Ernst Ahl has described no less than five species in 1924 

 and 1925. Thanks to his great kindness I have before me ex- 

 cellent photographs of the top and side of the head and the mid- 

 dorsal area of his specimens. All came from the Gundlach 

 collection and bore no more definite data than just ^' Cuba. '^ 

 The following notes based on a comparison of the photographs 

 with certain types and other authentic specimens in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology have indicated the following conclusions 

 which must be considered provisional until the types themselves 

 can be examined. 



1. AnoUs muelleri Ahl, Archiv f. Naturg., vol. 90, p. 247, 1924, = Anolis 

 homolechis Cope. 



2. Anolis ahatus Ahl, I. c, p. 248. Male cotype should be holotype of this 

 apparently valid species. The female cotype is wholly distinct and represents 

 the species described below as new. 



3. Anolis calliurus Ahl, I. c, p. 249, = an old male of Anolis quadriocellifer 

 Barbour and Ramsden. 



4. Anolis mertensi AJhl, Zool. Anz., vol. 62, p. 86, 1925, = a species probably 

 valid. 



5. Anolis cubanus Ahl,i I. c, p. 87 = Anolis mestrei Barbour. 



Last summer Dr. E. R. Dunn worked at the Biological Labora- 

 tory at Soledad, Cuba, maintained as a branch, supported by the 

 Atkins Foundation, of the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology 

 and Medicine. He studied principally the Eleutherodactyli 

 which had not been done in Cuba, intensively . and during the 

 summer rains. During a trip into the Trinidad Mountains he 

 obtained three specimens of a lizard which at once appeared to 

 be new and which agree exactly with the photographs of the 

 female cotype of Anolis ahatus Ahl. In recognition of Dr. Ahl's 

 kindness in aiding my investigations of the Anoles of the Berlin 

 Museum it is a pleasure to name this species for him. It may be 

 called 



^ It may be added that Anolis catenifer Ahl from "Brazil" is identical with 

 old male specimens of Anolis pundatus. 



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