Vol. XXVIII, pp. 71-78 March 12, 1915 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



RECENT NOTES REGARDING WEST INDIAN REPTILES 



AND AMPHIBIANS. 

 BY T. BARBOUR. 



Since my preliminary survey of the herpetological fauna of 

 the West Indies * was published, new material has made it 

 possible to clear up the identity of several species the status of 

 which was in doubt, to present new locality records for several 

 species, and to characterize some which appear to have remained 

 undescribed. Since the revision of the genus Ameiva is the 

 subject of a special study by Mr. G. K. Noble and myself no 

 notes upon it will appear in this short paper. I also hope to 

 review the Cuban forms in collaboration with Mr. C. T. Ramsden 

 of Guantanamo hence I am reserving recent Cuban data for that 

 paper, now fairly well under way. 



During the past summer Mr. G. K. Noble and Mr. F. R. 

 Wulsin made a trip to the West Indies for the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Wulsin was able 

 to remain but a short time, while Mr. Noble remained for some 

 ten weeks upon Guadeloupe making full collections of the land 

 vertebrates. These men both got some interesting species upon 

 other islands which they touched at both going and returning. 

 Beside this Dr. A. G. Ruthven of the Zoological Museum of the 

 University of Michigan has kindly allowed me to examine and 

 retain a considerable portion of the material which he obtained 

 during the stays in West Indian harbors of the ship in which 

 he journeyed to and from Demarara. Some of his material has 

 been extremely helpful. 



Eleutherodactylus lentus (Cope). 

 Up to 1914 I had not been able to satisfy myself of the certainty of the 

 occurrence of this species upon St. Croix, and I recorded it as confined 

 • Mem. M. C. Z.. 44, 1914, p. 209-359, pi. 1. 



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