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limb reaches the temple or the eye; digital expansions well deve- 
loped ; thirty to thirty-two lamellae under phalanges 1. and ru. of 
the fourth toe. Tail strongly compressed, with feebly serrated 
upper edge, in the adult male with a high fin-like crest on its an- 
terior half, supported by the much produced neural spines; the 
length of the tail equals nearly twice that of head and body. Male 
with enlarged postanal scales, Brown or bluish above, with more 
or less distinct bluish-white transverse bands, most regular on the 
limbs ; head above yellowish brown; belly white, uniform or brown- 
spotted ; gular appendage yellow. 
Total length .......... 416 millim. 
Head, seu a4 wie tiaaeas 46 ,, 
Width of head ........ 28, 
Bodye ais sta baleen ag a eae 100 so, 
Forelimb ............ 63 Cy, 
Hind limb............ 108 Cg, 
TEDDY Eze eris a taal teciatiterteigor 33, 
Mat. pSsig-a graye sade aeve shea 270, 
San Domingo. 
a. San Domingo. 
bg. San Domingo. M. Sallé (C.]. (Type of 
Fupristis baleatus.) 
3. Anolis cuvieri. 
Xiphosurus velifer, Gray, Cat. p. 197. 
Cuv. R. A. ii. p. 42, pl. v. fig. 1. 
Anolis cuvieri, Merr. Tent. p. 45. 
Xiphosurus cuvieri, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 48. 
Dactyloa cuvieri, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 148. 
Anolis velifer, Guér. Icon. R. A., Rept. pl. xii. fig. 1; Dum. & Bibr. 
iv. p. 164; Reinh. §& Liitk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 260. 
Ctenonotus (Semiurus) cuvieri, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 64. 
Head large, not quite twice as long as broad, much longer than 
the tibia; forehead and occiput concave; anterior part of head 
covered with hexagonal, flat, rugose scales; scales of the supra- 
orbital semicircles not enlarged ; supraocular scales small, with two 
series of hexagonal, keeled, enlarged ones; supraciliary edge very 
prominent, forming a small crest; canthus rostralis prominent ; 
loreal rows five; ten upper labials; ear-opening vertically oval. 
Gular appendage very large, extending posteriorly beyond the 
thorax, nearly entirely naked. Body strongly compressed, with a 
small serrated crest. Dorsal scales ovate-hexagonal, fecbly keeled, 
juxtaposed, separated by minute granules; ventral scales as large 
as dorsals, squarish, smooth, subimbricate. Limbs moderately elon- 
gate ; the scales under the thighs as large as the ventrals; digital 
expansions well developed. Tail strongly compressed, in the male 
with a high fin-like crest on its anterior half, supported by the 
much-produced neural spines. Slaty blue above, flanks blackish : 
