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keeled, rather irregular, arranged in about fourteen longitudinal 
series ; the dorsal scales abruptly pass into the laterals, which are 
small, subgranular, keeled, and intermixed with a few scattered en- 
larged rhomboidal ones; ventral scales very large, larger than 
dorsals, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly keeled. The adpressed hind 
limb reaches the eye or the posterior border of the orbit; digits 
moderately dilated; fifteen or sixteen lamelle under phalanges 1. 
and ur. of the fourth toe. Tail slightly compressed, nearly twice 
as long as head and body, covered with large, strongly keeled scales, 
Male with enlarged postanal scales. Bronzy or coppery above, 
uniform or with small ill-defined darker spots; a brown indistinct 
band on each side of the head and neck, passing through the eye ; 
female with a broad yellowish vertebral band; lower surfaces 
yellowish. 
millim, millim. 
Total length ...... 137 Fore limb ........ 22 
TCG dosti. Sand so can't 14 Hind limb........ 37 
Width of head .... 985 DIE: 5g sites tana 11 
Body os cin ies ceds 33 Teil: Ge gudeswueey 90 
Central America. 
a. 2. Central America. T 
b-e. S. Coban, Guatemala. O. Salvin, Esq. ro} (Types. 
dd. Plateau of Guatemala. Paris Museum [P. J. 
86. Anolis humilis. 
Anolis humilis, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1863, p. 188; Bocourt, Miss. 
Se. Mex., Rept. p. 105, pls. xiii. fig. 7, and xvi. fig. 31. 
Head once and two thirds to once and three fourths as long as 
broad, longer than the tibia; forehead slightly concave ; frontal 
ridges feebly marked, short and divergent; all the upper head-scales 
strongly keeled ; scales of the supraorbital semicircles scarcely en- 
larged, separated by two or three series of scales; a few enlarged 
supraoculars ; occipital hardly distinguishable; canthus rostralis 
angular ; loreal rows seven or eight ; seven to nine upper labials to 
below the centre of the eye; ear-opening large, vertically oval. 
Gular appendage moderately developed ; gular scales keeled. Body 
short, slightly compressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales very 
large, larger than ventrals, hexagonal, subimbricate, strongly keeled, 
forming about ten longitudinal series; lateral scales small, sub- 
granular, keeled ; ventrals roundish-rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly 
keeled, the keels not forming continuous lines. The adpressed hind 
limb reaches the anterior border of the orbit, or between the latter 
and the nostril; digits very slightly dilated; thirteen or fourteen 
lamelle under phalanges 1. and mr. of the fourth toe. Tail slightly 
compressed, a little longer than head and body. No enlarged post- 
anal scales. Brownish above, females sometimes with a broad, 
yellow, dark-edged vertebral band ; lower surfaces whitish ; asmall 
purplish spot on each side of the throat in the male. 
