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brown disposed in irregular transverse bands, and a 
very large goitre of pale orange. This is the most 
common Lizard around Kingston, but is unknown 
at the leeward end of the island. The Purple-tail, 
on the other hand, attains a superior development 
both of form and colour in the Kingston district. 
The vegetation in these parts and in the eastern 
parts of St. Elizabeth {ex. gr. Starvegut Bay and 
Pedro Bluif ) have a common character : species of 
Inga, Acacia, and Prosopis abound, intermingled 
with the beautiful Lignum vitm {Guaiacum offici-- 
nale), and enormous Cacti, {C. repandus, and C. 
Peruvianus) known as Dildoes. This is a botanical 
character widely different from that presented around 
Bluefields. 
The other Anoles that I have met with in Jamaica 
are rare. The one, a new species of Draconura (the 
Chain-marked Anolis), I know only by a single speci- 
men. The other, of which three individuals have 
come under my observation, is the Plate-headed 
Anolis, which exhibits characters that I have thought 
to demand the constitution of a new genus for its 
reception.'^ It is a handsome Lizard, of a delicate 
greenish-white, crossed by irregular bands of black, 
particularly conspicuous on the tail ; the goitre is 
large, and of a dark lake-crimson. The male is bold 
and fierce in self-defence, biting with such energy as 
to pierce the skin of the hand : the female, which is 
less distinctly marked, is timid, making no effort to 
bite when held in the hand ; is more slender, and has 
* These are described in the Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist, for 
November, 1850, as Draconura catenata and Placopsis ocellata. 
