3. ANOLIS, 33 
in the male, with a series of enlarged strongly keeled scales supe- 
riorly ; its length not twice that of head and body. Male with 
slightly enlarged postanal scales. Green, purplish, or brownish 
above, usually with darker reticulation enclosing round light spots ; 
females sometimes with a few angular cross bars on the back, with 
or without a light vertebral band ; throat with dark reticulation. 
é. Q. 
Total length.......... 166 119 millim. 
Head.) as erst cate aed 21 14. Ci, 
Width of head........ 13 Be 58 
Body: nanenad Heaeeres 45 BIA pass 
Fore limbs «si 4.0 ia as 30 21 35 
Hind mb: vavcena saves 50 33 Cy, 
Di bigis Sidi doe areca ie Atataty 15 TO. 's5 
Pan Fareed aly cata ld stok 100 73 45 
Jamaica, 
— 2 ir 
ew ae, | Sir J. MacGregor [P.]}. (Types.) 
q-h. 3. —? 
ted P Bristol Museum [P.]. 
kg. Jamaica. Capt. Parry [P.]. 
i-m, n-0, p. 3. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Types 
of A, todurus.) 
q. Q. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Type 
of A. vpalinus.) 
rs. 3. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 
18. Anolis distichus. 
Anolis distichus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 208, and Proc. Am. 
Philos, Soc. xi. 1869, p. 164. 
—— dominicensis, Reinh. & Liith. Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 261. 
brevirostris, Bocourt, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vi. 1870, Bull. p. 11, 
and Miss. Se. Mex., Rept. pl. xiv. fig. 6. 
Head rather short, once anda half as long as broad, a little 
longer than the tibia; forehead concave, frontal ridges distinct ; 
upper head-scales smooth or a little rugose; scales of the supra- 
orbital semicircles very large, in contact between the orbits, extend- 
ing forwards as frontal series ; six to eight large, smooth supra- 
ocular scales, separated from the supraorbitals by one or two rows 
of granules; occipital much larger than the ear-opening, in contact 
with the supraorbitals, or separated by one series of scales ; canthus 
rostralis angular, canthal scales three ; loreal rows four; five labials 
to below the centre of the eye; ear-opening rather small, suboval. 
Gular appendage rather small, absent in the female; gular scales 
smooth. Body scarcely compressed, without dorso-nuchal fold. 
Dorsal scales minute, granular, all equal; ventral scales larger, 
roundish, juxtaposed or subimbricate, smooth. Limbs moderately 
long; the adpressed hind limb reaches the eye or the anterior border 
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