. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 174 BULLETIN 17 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM separated from the supraorbital semicircles and from the superciliaries by one row of somewhat smaller scales; can thus rostralis strongly projecting over the loreal region, and covered by four sharply keeled scales succeeded by two others on the anterior superciliary border, the last of this series much the longest and not followed by any differen- tiated scales; loreal rows three, the five scales of the subocular semi- circle very elongate, broadly in contact with the upper labials, the firs
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 174 BULLETIN 17 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM separated from the supraorbital semicircles and from the superciliaries by one row of somewhat smaller scales; can thus rostralis strongly projecting over the loreal region, and covered by four sharply keeled scales succeeded by two others on the anterior superciliary border, the last of this series much the longest and not followed by any differen- tiated scales; loreal rows three, the five scales of the subocular semi- circle very elongate, broadly in contact with the upper labials, the first three heavily keeled, the fifth small; supralabials nine, the suture between the seventh and eighth coming directly beneath the center of the eye; temporal granules about equal to the dorsals, with a rather indistinctly differentiated patch of larger ones forming the supra- temporal line; back and sides covered with bluntly tubercular granules, those of the four median dorsal rows with somewhat larger and more elongate granules which seem to have traces of a keel, about 40 to 45 granules along the dorsolateral region equaling the distance between. Figure 57.—Anolis chloro-cyanus: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, middorsal scales; d, side of tail. No. 59204, from St. Marc, Haiti. Twice natural size. tip of snout and center of eye; ventral scales about twice as large as the dorsal granules, perfectly flat, not or but slightly imbricate, almost square; throat covered with small rounded granules; limbs covered above with small scales, three faintly keeled and enlarged series ap- pearing on the anterior face of foreleg and on tibia; scales covering hands and feet above enlarged, multicarinate; digital expansion wide, about 29 lamellae under the second and third phalanges, about 45 under the whole toe; tail fairly long, roimd, the median scales enlarged but not crested; the laterals arranged hi well-marked verticils composed of about four vertical rows of polygonal, k
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