/^^ BREVIORA MniseiiirTti of Coimparsitive Zoology Cambridge, Mass. Aigust 22, 1962 Number 164 NOTES ON THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA. 7. NEW MATERIAL OF TWO POORLY KNOWN ANOLES ANOLIS MONTICOLA SHREVE AND AX LIS CHRISTOPHEI WILLIAMS. By Ernest E. Williams Recent expeditions in Haiti have obtained material of two ancles, one of which {A. inonficula Shreve) had been previously recorded on the basis of the unique type specimen, and the other (A. christophei Williams) was known only from type and para-type. Examination of the new material sugg-ests that the two species, though in a number of respects strikingly different, may yet be related. It is, therefore, appropriate to discuss these two species jointly. Comparison is made also with Anolis darlingtoni Coch-ran = .4. ctheridgei new name,^ regarded by Cochran (1939, 1941) as allied to monticola. Anolis monticola A. monticola Shreve 1936 was described from a single male (lacking most of the tail and darkened by formaldehyde) col-lected by P. J. Darlington in "tlie northern and eastern foothills. Massif de La Hotte, 1000-4000 feet, Haiti." No other specimens have been reported since the original description. However, specimens had been collected for the American Museum of Natural History by W. G. Hassler in 1935 in the vicinity of Aux Cayes and Camp Perrin. These, like the type, are in a dark phase and show only the faintest trace of pattern. In Hassler 's notebook, on the other hand, there 1 Etheridge (unpublished thesis, University of Michigan) has shown that the genus Xiphocercus cannot be retained. Thus. Xiphocercux diirlingtoni Cochran l'.i.';."i joiiKs the ijcnus AjioHk. am; Aiwli-y (liirliiuitoni Cdchran liC'.it iiuiHt in conse-tiuenee be renamed. I propose, with Miss ('(ichran's kind consent, tliat tlie later named species be called Anolis etheridgci.
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