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Anolis cristatellus Ddmbkil et Bibron. 



Dumeril et Bibron, Erp6t. gen., 1837, 4, p. 143. Stejneger, Rept. U. S. nat. mus. for 1902, 1904, 



p. 638, fig. 92-94. 

 Ajiolis scriplus Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 23. 



This Anolis is widely distributed, and extremely abundant where it occurs. 

 There are several hundred specimens in the collection from Haiti, Porto Rico, 

 St. Thomas, and Morant Island of the Virgin group. A comparison of this great 

 series with the types of Garman's A. scriptus shows them to be identical. The 

 original description of this species concluded with the sentence "Readily dis- 

 tinguished from A. cristatellus, which it closely resembles, by the greater size of 

 the two vertebral rows." I can not see, however, that these are at all enlarged; 

 and there is no other character in which they vary from true A. cristatellus. 

 They are simply specimens of this species for which the locality label got in some 

 way confused. They were said to have been collected by Louis Agassiz on Silver 

 and Lena Keys, Florida. I can not learn of the location of these keys; and the 

 lizards doubtless came from Porto Rico or St. Thomas, where the species is 

 excessively common. I doubt the correctness of the locality label on the Haitian 

 specimens, as I do those on the Haitian specimens of A. pulchellus and A. stratu- 

 lus. Meerwarth, however, records specimens from the same island (Mitth. 

 Naturh. mus. Hamburg, 1901, 18, p. 21). 



Anolis stratulus Cope. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1861, p. 209. Stejneger, Rept. U. S. nat. mus. for 1902, 1904, p. 651, 

 fig. 105-107. 



This species is a distinct and handsomely marked one from St. Thomas, 

 Tortola, Just van Dyke, Vieques, and Porto Rico. The Museum, besides hav- 

 ing specimens from the last mentioned island and St. Thomas, has a couple 

 which are said to have come from Port au Prince, Haiti. Stejneger remarks 

 that it is desirable that this locality record be verified. For my part, I think 

 this is simply a result of a mixing of labels such as has also occurred in the case 

 of Anolis pulchellus, which is credited to Port au Prince also, doubtless incorrectly, 

 and in the case of A. cristatellus, which has been described as A. scriptus from the 

 Florida Keys. 



Anolis homolechis (Cope). 

 Cope, Proc. acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1864, p. 169. Boulenger, Cat. lizards, Brit, mus., 1885, 2, p. 28. 



This widely distributed but quite uncommon woodland species may easily 

 be distinguished from every other Anolis on Cuba by its ivory-white dewlap. 



