294 BARBOUR: ZOOGEOGRAPHY. 



Gray (loc. cit.) recorded the locality whence the species was supposed to 

 have come by saying that it "Inhab. Cuba and Texas." There is no doubt, 

 however, but that the Cuban species was the one described. 



It is abundant all over the island, occurring most commonly in gardens. 

 It is especially fond of sitting on the plants which have long leaves, species of 

 Pandanus, various bromeliacious plants and particularly upon agaves and aloes. 



Anolis maynardi Garman. 

 Garman, Bull. Essex inst, 1888, 20, p. 7. 



This species, which is confined to Little Cayman Island, differs markedly 

 from A. porcatus of Cuba, its closest ally. Garman has mentioned the very 

 long narrow snout, and the rather weak longitudinal rugae of the head, which 

 separate the species from the shorter and more rugosely headed Cuban form. 

 Of the two types (M. C. Z., No. 6,227), only one is in useful condition, the other 

 having apparently been very badly dried and eaten by insects. 



Anolis brunneus Cope. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1894, p. 432, pi. 10, fig. 3. Barbour, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 1911, 23, 

 p. 49. 



Even though it is not absolutely certain that the common green Anolis of 

 the several Bahamas does not differ constantly upon the various islands, still 

 at present it seems best for reasons already given (Barbour, loc. cit.) to consider 

 these lizards together under this name, and so to distinguish them from their 

 allies in Cuba, A. porcatus, and on the American mainland, A. carolinensis. 

 Rosen, (Lunds univ. arsskrift, 1911, 7, no. 5, p. 30) although he had no Cuban 

 material for comparison, nevertheless quite independently arrived at a somewhat 

 similar solution of the vexed question regarding the status of these Bahaman 

 lizards. 



Anolis oligaspis Cope. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1844, p. 430, pi. 11, fig. 5. 



This species was described by Cope from an imperfect female taken on New 

 Providence Island. He compares it with A. krugi of Porto Rico, but remarks 

 that he has not seen the latter. On my trips to New Providence I have never 

 got this species, and have often doubted whether the type was not a displaced 

 specimen, wrongly credited to the Bahaman fauna. When, also, however, 

 Rosen's account of what he determined as Anolis porcatus appeared, it seemed at 

 once probable that what he termed the "rare form" of this species was nothing 



