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more or less indistinct. The colour of larger specimens (Fig. 9), measuring about 

 55 to 60 mm. from snout to vent, is dark brown with small yellow points, bordered 

 by black. The colour changes to light brown or to light grey, the markings getting 

 indistinct. Belly lighter. Gular appendage brown with black spots (on the scales). 

 Withdrawn it looks black with a light yellow edge. In formol the gular appendage 

 sometimes get reddish^. As seen there is a very great difference in colour between 

 the younger and older specimens, and it is not strange that these different stages 

 of age have been regarded as different species. That this is not the case is proved 

 by the occurrence of specimens, forming an intermediate series according to the 

 colour between these two extreme types. I have found a great number of such 

 specimens. The lateral bands become indistinct and disappear. Tlie colour gets 

 uniform brown. The gular appendage changes its colour towards brown. Its scales 

 get dark brown or black. 



As it is possible to follow the development of colouration from 

 the stage described for the young specimens to that described for 

 the larger ones, to follow how the tail gets more compresed with 

 age and the development of a feeble nuclio-dorsal fold, and as it * 

 is quite impossible to find any difference in squamation, I consider 

 it quite evident that the specimens in question all belong to the 

 same species. 



Garman has described a species, A. ltdeosignijer (Bull. Essex Inst., Vol. 20, 

 p. 104) from Cayman Banc, which he considers to be closely allied with A. sagrae 

 It seems to me rather probable that it is not a distinct species but identical with 

 A. sagrae. As Garman has not given any figures or detailed description of his 

 species, it is not possible to form a decided opinion about it. 



Anolis sp. 



Stbjneger (18, p. 334") refers Cope's Anolis ordinntus from Turks Isl. to a 

 distinct species, not naming it. As to this question I refer to what I have staled 

 above about A. sagrae. 



Liocephalus carinatus, Gray. 

 Phil. Mag. (2) II p. 208. 



This species seems to be generally distributed in the Bahamas, being recorded 

 from Great Abaco, Great Bahama, Stranger Cay, New Providence ^, Andros, Cat 

 Island and Crooked Island. At Mastic Point and the places north of it on Andros I 

 did not find this species and was told by the natives that it did not occur there, but 



' This is probably caused by the presence of two different pigments, red and brown or blacli : 

 the iastnamed is the most developed and gives the animal its general colour, but it is more easily 

 destroyed than the red one, which accordingly to preserved specimens is giving the colour. I have 

 made the same observation about tlie changing influence of preserving fluids on some fishes in the 

 Bahamas. 



^ According to Cope; Barboue says it is unknown there. I never saw it there. 



