3. ANOLIS. 85 
Head, to ear .......... 17 millim. 
From ear to vent ...... 51, 
Hind limb ............ 53, 
Wail ecenpeearelmste tags 119 
Colombia. 
92. Anolis oxylophus. 
Anolis oxylophus, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 123, 
pls. xxiv. fig. 4, and xxviii. fig. 5, 
Resembles the preceding, except in the following points :—Frontal 
ridges much more prominent; canthus rostralis distinct to near the 
nostril ; occipital bounded laterally and in front by a number of 
scuta of the same size and form; superior labials thirteen. Dorsal 
scales about equal to the ventrals. The adpressed hind limb reaches 
the middle of the orbit. Colour dark brown, the limbs and feet with 
pale cross bands ; a distinct whitish band extends from the scapular 
region to near the groin; abdomen yellowish, with a broad brown 
border on each side. 
Total length .......... 217 millim, 
Head, to ear.......... 19” 45 
Width of head ........ ll, 
Length, to vent........ 76 ,, 
Hind limb ............ 60, 
Costa Rica. 
93. Anolis godmani. 
Head once and three fourths or twice as long as broad, slightly 
longer than the tibia; snout rather pointed ; forehead and interorbital 
region concave, frontal ridges short and divergent; upper head- 
scales very small, uni- or tricarinate ; scales of the supraorbital semi- 
circles onlarged, separated by two to four series of scales; a few 
enlarged, keeled supraocular scales; occipital larger than the ear- 
opening, separated from the supraorbitals by three to five series of 
scales ; canthus rostralis sharp, canthal scales three or four; loreal 
rows six to eight; six upper labials to below the centre of the eye; 
ear-opening moderate, vertically oval. Gular appendage moderate ; 
gular scales keeled. Body not or scarcely compressed; no dorso- 
nuchal fold. Dorsal scales very small, subrhomboidal, keeled, gradu- 
ating into the minute granules of the sides; ventrals larger, roundish- 
hexagonal, imbricate, keeled. Limbs slender; the adpressed hind 
limb reaches nearly the end of the snout; digits feebly dilated ; 
thirteen or fourteen lamelle under phalanges 11. and 111. of the fourth 
toe. Tail cylindrical, nearly twice as long as head and body, with- 
out vertebral series of enlarged scales. Male with slightly enlarged 
postanal scales. Greenish-brown above; upper lip yellowish, bor- 
dered above by a sharply defined brown band passing through the 
eye and above the ear, vanishing behind the shoulder ; a dark cross 
band between the eyes; sometimes a few small distant brown spots 
on the vertebral line. 
