3. ANOLIS. 89 
compressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales very small, rhom- 
boidal, imbricate, keeled, graduating into the granular laterals; 
ventral scales much larger than dorsals, rhomboidal, imbricate, 
strongly keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the anterior 
border of the orbit, or between the latter point and the end of the 
snout; digits rather feebly dilated; seventeen or eighteen (nine- 
teen) lamelle under phalanges 1. and i. of the fourth toe. 
Tail roundish, covered with strongly keeled scales, the median 
dorsal series scarcely enlarged; length of tail twice, or a little 
more, that of head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Brownish 
golden above, with large dark brown spots or angular markings ; 
frequently one or two more or less defined white lateral bands ; 
female sometimes with a broad light, dark-edged vertebral band ; 
lower surfaces white, with golden and greenish metallic reflections. 
Total length .......... 190 millim. 
CAG 5 5c6 acgag ints ee cedetae ss « 16. OC, 
Width of head ........ 10_—C—*=, 
BOO sr sing esac elie 44, 
Fore limb ............ 27s, 
Hind limb ............ 51g, 
Vibiti cseswewkanade ies 15, 
Pals” ateeiiaeg ss tga tesa et 130, 
Central America to Venezuela and Ecuador. 
af,g. 3. Lower Vera Paz. O. Salvin, Esq. Re ; 
h. Q. Duetias, Guatemala. O. Salvin, Esq. [C.). 
ty C's Rio Polochic, Guatemala, O, Salvin, Esq. fo. ; 
k-l. Ss. Leghoon,. 
m. 9. Venezuela. 
n &. Trinidad. ©. Taylor, Esq. [P.]. 
0. Q. W. Ecuador. Mr. Fraser (C.]. 
99. Anolis chrysolepis. 
Draconura chrysolepis, Gray, Cat. p. 207. 
Anolis chrysolepis, Dum. § Bibr. iv. p. 94; Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., 
Rept. p. 99, pl. xvi. fig. 26; Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1863, p. 142. 
planiceps, part., Zrosch. in Schomb. Reise Brit. Guian. iii. p. 649. 
—— nummifer, O'Shaughn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xv. 1875, 
. 278. 
ae turmalis, O’Shaughn. 1. ce. 
—— (Draconura) chrysolepis, part., O’Shaughn. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1881, p. 241. 
Head about once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or a 
little shorter than the tibia; forehead scarcely concave; frontal 
ridges absent or short and very feeble; upper head-scales uni- or 
tricarinate; scales of the supraorbital semicircles slightly enlarged, 
separated by one or two series of scales; numerous enlarged, 
strongly keeled supraocular scales; occipital considerably larger 
than the ear-opening, separated from the supraorbitals by two or 
