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The specimens arrived alive, except one small one well preserved. All 

 were gravid females and they had become injured and diseased during 

 their journey to Cambridge so that only the small individual and one of 

 the adults make really satisfactory material for the study of details of 

 squamation. 



Mabuya sloanii (Daudin). 



Cope recorded a seine from Turks Island in Abell's collection first as 

 M. cepedei (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 11, 1871, p. 558) and later mentioned 

 it again as M. agilis (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 10, 1887, p. 438). Rtejneger 

 (Shattuck's Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 332) suspected that if there really 

 were a Turks Island Mabuya it would prove to belong to the same species 

 as is found in Porto Rico and Haiti, viz. M. sloanii. Mr. Mowbray 

 secured tv. o beautifully preserved adult seines at Grand Turk in June, 

 1916. He says that they are very rare. They are not precisely typical 

 of sloanii, in that in both examples the supranasals fail to meet behind 

 the rostral. However, knowing West Indian seines to be variable and 

 with such scanty material it seems wisest simply to confirm Stejneger's 

 surmise. In their color, which is exceptionally brilliant, these lizards 

 agree well with sloanii. 



Nothing has hitherto been known concerning the herpetolog- 

 ical fauna of the Exuma group of the Bahama Islands. Mr. 

 C. J. Maynard visited these cays during the spring of 1915. 

 The collection which he made and which is now the property 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology furnishes the following 

 records. From the same series a new iguana iCyclura inornata 

 Barbour and Noble) has already been described (Bull. M. C. 

 Z., 60, 1916, p. 151, pi. 14). 



Hyla septentrionalis Boulenger. — Conch Cut Cay; Sampson's Cay. 



Sphaerodactylus notatus Baird. — Cay opposite Roseville, Exuma. 

 Stocky Island, Exuma. 



Sphaerodactylus corticolus Garman. — Nassau, 1 example, new to 

 New Providence Island. 



Sphaerodactylus decoratus Garman. — Little Woman's Cay. 



Sphaerodactylus alopex Cope. — Two examples from Stocky Island, 

 near Exuma Island, and one from the Cay opposite Roseville, Exuma. 

 These examples have been compared with Cope's types of alopex also in 

 the Mus. Comp. Zool. and while these are not in perfect condition never- 

 theless there does not seem to be much doubt as to the identity of the 

 specimens. It is not very surprising to add this Haitian Sphaerodactylus 

 to the fauna of the Bahamas. 



Tarentola cubana G. & P. — Many years ago when I was, as a youth, 

 more or less constantly at the New York Zoological Park I remember 



