192 IGUANIDH, 
pressed scales in front of the gular appendage, below the chin. 
Dorso-nuchal crest constantly rather lower. Ventral scales more 
distinctly keeled. Nineteen or twenty femoral pores on each side. 
Uniform green or blackish-olive, head yellowish. 
centim. centim. 
Total length ...... 121 Fore limb........ 16 
Head ce cutee: 7 Hind limb........ 26 
Width of head .... 5 AD BAL: ge cravgns aecetece rest 85 
BODY ea deows ods d iene 29 
West Indies ; Swan Islands; Brazil. 
a, Ad., stuffed. —-? 
b @. —? Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
c,d,e,f,g,h,t. 3,2,&hgr. —P 
36. BRACHYLOPHUS. 
Brachylophes, Cuv, R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. 40. 
Brachylophus, Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 151; Dum. § Bibr. iv. p. 225 ; 
Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 65; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 187. 
Iguana, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex, p. 15. 
Chloroscartes, Giinth. Proc, Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 188. 
Tympanum distinct. Body compressed; a dorsal crest; dorsal 
scales small. Upper head-scales small. A transverse gular fold; 
male with a gular pouch. Digits compressed, with keeled lamella 
inferiorly. A short series of femoral pores. Tail long, compressed. 
Lateral teeth tricuspid; pterygoid teeth. No sternal fontanelle. 
Abdominal ribs. 
Fiji and Friendly Islands. 
1. Brachylophus fasciatus. 
Brachylophus fasciatus, Gray, Cat. p. 187. 
Tguana fasciata, Brongn. Bull. Soc. Philom, ii. 1880, p. 90, pl. vi. 
fig. 1; Daud. Rept. iii. p. 352. 
Brachylophus fasciatus, Wagl. l.c.; Guér. Icon. R. A., Rept. pl. ix. 
fig. 1; Dum. § Bibr. iv. p. 226; A. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 64; 
Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 374, pl. xviii. figs. 8, 9. 
Iguana (Brachylophus) fasciatus, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 87. 
Chloroscartes fasciatus, Giinth. Ll. c. p. 189, pl. xxv. 
Head rather small; snout rounded, with obtuse canthus rostralis ; 
nostril near the tip of the snout ; tympanum vertically oval, larger 
than the eye-opening; upper head-scales small, polygonal, smooth, 
smallest on supraocular region ; occipital not enlarged ; six or seven 
upper and as many lower labials; mental with median cleft pos- 
teriorly ; gular region covered with round or oval smooth granules 
intermixed with smaller ones. Dorso-nuchal crest a feebly serrated 
ridge, a little more developed on the nape. Dorsal scales minute, 
equal, keeled ; ventrals larger, though very small, strongly keeled. 
Limbs covered with uniform small keeled scales ; the adpressed hind 
