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Show 1881.] LIZARDS FROM ECUADOR. 241 millim. Length of fore limb 161 ,, third finger 17 ,, fourth finger 18| ,, hind limb 197 „ third toe 17 ,, fourth toe 27 This very handsome species differs from E. heterolepis in having the scales on the sides of the body much smaller and scarcely intermixed with larger ones, also in the smooth or very feebly keeled scales of the lower surface, in which, amongst other points, it differs also from E. microlepis. Two specimens, male and female, nearly equal in size, from the localities Pallatanga and Canelos. 17. ANOLIS (DRACONURA) CHRYSOLEPIS. Anolis {Draconura) chrysolepis, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. iv. p. 94 ; Guichenot, Casteln. Voy. Amer. Merid. ii. p. 15, pi. iv. f. 1 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex. iii. p. 99, pi. 16. f. 26. Anolis nummifer, O'S. Ann. N . H. ser. 4, xv. p. 278. Two specimens from Canelos, and one from Pallatanga, which show the characteristic coloration figured by Guichenot. It is as well to state with regard to this species that the single specimen referred to it by Dr. Gray in his Catalogue is a Nerops au-ratus, and that it is consequently only rather recently that we have in the British Museum possessed specimens correctly (as I believe) referred to this species. In regard to the species which I have described as Anolis nummifer (Ann. N. H. ser. 4, xv. p. 278), I now entertain considerable doubts whether it is more than a variety of this same long-established A. chrysolepis, two distinct systems of coloration in which have been pointed out by M. Bocourt. Putting the entire series of specimens together, I now find great variation of colour, but no substantial differences but what are either sexual or within the possible limits of a species. They all have the narrower toes characteristic of Draconura. Another specimen, a female, which I now therefore refer to A. chrysolepis, was collected by Mr. Buckley at Canelos. N.B. I may state, with reference to Prof. Cope's remarks on my identification of his A. vittigerus with A. biporcatus, that a renewed examination on the present occasion of the specimens named by him in the British Museum only confirms m e in m y view, and that M. Boulenger, to whom I have shown them, also agrees with me. A variety, which must be the A. bivittatus, Hallow., with lateral longitudinal stripes, is well represented in this series. [ANOLIS PUNCTATUS. Anolis punctatus, Daudin, Rept. iv. p. 84, pi. 66. fig. 2 ; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gener. iv. p. 112. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1881, No. XVI. 16 |