3. ANOLIS. 91 
Head once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or a little 
shorter than the tibia; forehead slightly concave; frontal ridges 
distinct, short; upper head-scales small, keeled; scales of the 
supraorbital semicircles slightly enlarged, separated by three or 
four (two) series of scales; numerous slightly enlarged, keeled 
supraocular scales; occipital nearly as large as the ear-opening, 
separated from the supraorbitals by three or four series of scales ; 
canthus rostralis angular, canthal scales two or three; loreal rows 
eight to ten; eight to ten labials to below the centre of the eye ; 
ear-opening moderately large, oval, horizontal, slightly oblique. 
Gular appendage small, nearly as much developed in the female as 
in the male; gular scales keeled. Body not or but feebly com- 
pressed ; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales very small, slightly 
larger than the minute, granular, keeled laterals, rhomboidal, 
juxtaposed, keeled ; ventrals large, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly 
keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the tip of the snout or a 
little beyond; digits very feebly dilated; seventeen to nineteen 
lamella under phalanges mu. and ur. of the fourth toe. Tail 
rounded, covered with equal keeled scales, usually at least twice as 
long as head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Olive or 
brownish above, with metallic reflections ; back usually with large 
angular dark spots, sometimes confluent into a zigzag band or 
series of rhombs ; female sometimes with a broad light, dark-edged 
vertebral band; a dark transverse band between the eyes; lower 
surfaces whitish, with metallic reflections ; a large dark blue spot 
on each side of the gular appendage; usually a blackish streak 
along the middle of the belly in the female. 
Total length .......... 241 millim. 
Head cscangawew wees +) eee 
Width of head ........ 4 ~=C«« 
Body sevacueeere veers DT oss 
Fore limb ............ 45, 
Hind limb............ 7B ss 
IDB) ag ¢-s-s-wa oh acntiaia wt 24. —C«,, 
Pail sce cer aaereee ateese 163, 
Venezuela to Upper Amazons. 
a. Q. Caracas. (Type.) 
b,¢,d. 2. Canelos, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley re 
e 9. Pallatanga, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C. ]. 
n oaroie Peruvian Amazons. Mr. Bartlett [C.]. 
101. Anolis nitens. 
Draconura nitens, Gray, Cat. p. 207. 
Draconura nitens, Wagl. Syst. Rept. p. 149. 
Anolis refulgens (Schleg.), Dum. § Bibr. iv. p. 91. ; 
—— planiceps, part., Zrosch. in Schomb. Reise Brit, Guian, iil. 
. 649. 
z (Draconura) nitens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 142; 
Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. pl. xvi. fig. 25. 
