602 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
nuchal crest of triangular scales,’’ or, in other words, a crest 
on the back precisely like that of the tail, and not at all like 
the dermal fold so characteristic of another group of Anoles. 
Add to this that Edwards’s figure is life size, and yet only about 
one-half that of the Jamaican species, and that the latter, or 
any species of the same group, does not occur on Nevis, nor in 
fact on any of the Caribbean Islands, while another species 
of the group with the dorsal fold is known to live on Nevis, and 
the conclusion is inevitable that the great crested Anolis of 
Jamaica has been wrongly named A. edwardsii. 
As it has received no other name, a new one has to be pro- 
vided, and I propose to call it Anolis garmani, in recognition 
of Mr. S. Garman’s important studies of West Indian Anoles. 
I may add that the species is briefly mentioned by Sloane (Wat. 
Hist. Jamaica, Part II, 1725, p. 333) as Lacertus major e viridi 
cinereus, dorso crista breviori donato, and figured on Pl. 273, 
Fig. 2. This has usually been referred to Anolis equestris, 
from Cuba, but is plainly the Jamaican species. It is certain 
that true A. equestris does not occur in Jamaica. 
