Fig. 5. Typical absorbance spectra of oil droplets from the cones of Anolis cristatellus (A) and A. valencienni (B). The absorbances of the ellipsoid region of the accessory member of the double cones are also shown. All absorbances that saturated the microspectrophotometer output (optical density >2.5) were normalized to 1.0, while absorbances below saturation are shown relative to the normalized absorbances. Thus, the ellipsoid absorbance in A indicates a very pale ellipsoid and the absorbance of the C1 droplet in B indicates a pale droplet. Although the G and Y droplets always show very steep cut-offs, as seen here, the ellipsoid and C1 absorbances can be quite variable. The absorbance of the C2 droplet associated with the ultraviolet single cone is the dashed line in A and falls on the zero line in B.