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47. Anolis punctatus. 
Rhinosaurus gracilis, Gray, Cat. p. 199. 
Anolius punctatus, Gray, 0. ¢. p. 305. 
Anolis punctatus, Deud, Rept. iv. p. 84, pl. xlviii. fig. 2; Dum. & 
Bibr. iv. p. 112; Guichen. in Casteln. Amér. Mér., Rept. p. 16; 
O'Shaughn. Proc, Zool. Soe. 1881, p. 241. 
—— gracilis, Wied, Reise Bras. ii. p. 181, and Abbild. 
— viridis, Wied, 1. c. p. 182, and Abbild. 
violaceus, Spur, Lac, Bras. p. 15, pl. xvii. fig. 2. 
—— nasicus, Dum. § Bibr. p. 115; Guichen. l.c. p. 17, pl. iv. fig. 2. 
Ptychonotus (Kunotus) gracilis, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 65. 
Dactyloa (Eudactylus) punctata, Fitzing. 1. ce. p. 67. 
Head once and three fourths to twice as long as broad, longer 
than the tibia; end of snout truncate in the female, pointed, com- 
pressed, and projecting in the male; forehead and interorbital space 
concave; no frontal ridges; upper head-scales smooth; scales of 
the supraorbital semicircles large, in contact or separated by one 
or two series of scales; a few slightly enlarged, more or less dis- 
tinetly keeled, supraocular scales; occipital as large as or a little 
larger than the ear-opening, separated from the supraorbitals by 
two or three series of scales ; canthus rostalis sharp, canthal scales 
four ; loreal rows four to six ; seven to nine upper labials to below the 
centre of the eye; ear-opening moderately large, suboval. Gular 
appendage well developed in the male, very small in the female; 
gular scales smooth or obtusely keeled. Body compressed in the 
male, with a slight dorso-nuchal fold. Scales small, granular, 
smooth, scarcely larger on the back than on the sides; ventrals 
larger, roundish, subimbricate, smooth. The adpressed hind limb 
reaches the posterior border of the tympanum or between the 
latter and the ear-opening; digital expansions well developed ; 
twenty-six to twenty-eight lamella under phalanges 11. and m1. 
of the fourth toe. Tail feebly compressed, without dorsal series of 
enlarged scales; its length about twice that of head and body. 
Male with or without enlarged postanal scales. Purplish above, 
with scattered round white dots ; female sometimes with a vertebral 
series of elongate lighter spots; lower surfaces greenish- or purplish- 
white. 
Total length .......... 262 millim 
Head «ici cece ees 24 =, 
Width of head ........ i 
Body iscsacnsec ave ses 58 Cs, 
Fore limb ............ 33, 
Hind limb............ 59, 
Tibia: acco ae wee ee 4 18 C,, 
Pall. swrenss yeas ex 180, 
Brazil and Upper Amazons, 
a 3. Brazil. 
b-c,d. 3 Q. Rio Janeiro, G. Busk, Esq. [P.]. 
ea d- Peruvian Amazons. Mr. E. Bartlett Na 
f. ds. Cayaria, Peru. Messrs. Veitch [P.]. 
