Vol. XXIX, pp. 221-224 December 16, 1916 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES FROM TOBAGO. 

 BY T. BARBOUR. 



Nothing approaching a complete list of the species of the 

 lower land vertebrates from Tobago has appeared. There are a 

 number of records from that island scattered through the pages 

 of Boulenger's Catalogues of Snakes and Lizards in the British 

 Museum. In August, 1879, Cope published a short list in his 

 ' * Eleventh Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical Amer- 

 ica " * and named the local Ameiva. This name tohaganus 

 (sic) evidently escaped Boulenger when he was writing the 

 Catalogue of Lizards, and small wonder — for it was not conspic- 

 uously published. 



These notes are based upon a collection made by Dr. H. L. 

 Clark of the Museum of Comparative Zoology while a member 

 of the Carnegie Institution Expedition to Tobago and his series 

 is supplemented by a fine lot obtained from Mr. Broadway, in 

 charge of the Botanical Gardens at Scarborough, Tobago. 



A glance at the list will show that the fauna is more extensive 

 than one might expect from the small size of the island and the 

 close relationship to that of Trinidad, so well known, is em- 

 phasized . 



Cope recor4ed two species not in either the Clark or Broadway 

 collection. They are the Fer-de-Lance (Lachesis lanceolatus) 

 and the Piping Tree frog iEleidherodactylus martinicensis) . 

 Specimens of the latter would be very interesting as they would 

 probably not be referable to marti nicensis. 



• Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1879, p. 276-277. 



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