No. 8 — The Taxonomy of the Anolis homolechis Complex of Cuba, By Rodolfo Ruibal and Ernest E. Williams INTRODUCTION In Barbour and Ramsden's (1919) "Herpetology of Cuba" nineteen species of the genus Anolis were recognized. Of these, five were grouped together as related, in both the key to the spe-cies and in the text. These species are: A. homolechis (Cope) 1864, A. mestrei Barbour and Ranisden 1916, A. rubribarbus Bar-bour and Ramsden 1919, A. quadriocellifer Barbour and Rams-den 1919, and A. allogus Barbour and Ramsden 1919. Later, two more species were described that were related to this group : A. ahli Barbour 1925, and A. patricius Barbour 1929. In 1937 Barbour published the "Third list of Anglican reptiles and amphibians. ' ' At this time he further emphasized the interrela-tion of the various species in the group by making trinomials of all names, as follows : A. allogus allogus A. allogus mestrei A. allogus ahli A. homolechis homolechis A. homolechis rubribarbus A. homolechis quadriocellifer A. homolechis patricius It must be pointed out that A. mestrei was described in 1916, three years before A. allogus. Consequently, the trinomials in-volving these two names are incorrect as a matter of nomencla-ture. Furthermore, a careful analysis of the morphology of these six described forms indicates that Barbour was also wrong in regard to the species and subspecies groupings of the various forms. In the sections that follow an attempt is made to redescribe the forms on a sound morphological basis and to determine the interrelationship of the various species. The data for this work have been obtained by a study of the types of five of the six de-scribed forms (only the type of homolechis was not seen), and the specimens of these species in the Museum of Comparative
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