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to assume that S. sptUator is confined to St. Eustatius. S. fantasticus 

 was one of tlie species received from P]6e and credited by Dumeril et 

 Bibron to Martinique. Stejneger pointed out how worthless was this 

 information.* Further investigation shows that while Plee evidently 

 collected at the various French Islands, probably on a voyage from Porto 

 Rico to Martinique, he did very little reptile collecting upon that island 

 itself. 



This summer Doctor Ruthven got three Sphaerodactyli upon Martinique 

 and it became obvious at once that they were not fantasticus, since they 

 lacked the granular middorsal area mentioned by Dumeril et Bibron. 

 When on the other hand, I examined Noble's series of about fifty exam- 

 ples from Guadeloupe I was struck by their very exact agreement with 

 the ilescription of fantasticus. This was especially evident in comparing 

 specimens with Dumeril et Bibron' s figure, since I was able to match 

 absolutely with several different individuals the peculiar and I imagine 

 quite characteristic markings of the head and neck region. Thus I sub- 

 mit that S. fantasticus D. <fe B. was really collected by Plee upon Guade- 

 loupe, not IMartinique, and is, so far as we now know certainly, confined 

 to the Island of Guadeloupe. The Martinique species which appear to 

 be imdescribed may be known as 



Sphaerodactylus festus sp. nov. 



Type, an adult, M. C. Z. No. 10622, collected on Martinique, French 

 West Indies, July 4, 1914, by Dr. A. G. Ruthven. Paratypes in the M. 

 C. Z. and the University of Michigan, Zoological Museum. 



Snout rather pointed but short, the distance from the tip to the eye 

 being slightly less than that from the posterior border of the eye to the 

 ear opening, not quite twice the diameter of the eye ; rostral rather large 

 with a long median cleft behind ; nostril between rostral, first supralabial, 

 a single rather large postnasal and a larger supra-nasal which is separated 

 from its fellow of the other side by a single small scale, these three 

 bordering the rostral above ; three large supralabials to the center of the 

 eye; a prominent spine on the superciliary margin over the middle of the 

 eye ; head above and on the sides covered with small rounded granular 

 or tubercular scales; those on back small, keeled, very slightly imbricate, 

 eighteen to twenty equivalent to the distance from tip of snout to ear 

 opening; mental large, longer than rostral; one very large, one medium 

 sized and one small infralabial to below the center of the eye; two small 

 chin shields behind mental followed by a series of five flat smaller scales, 

 scales of throat and lower neck uniform in size, flat and polygonal ; on 

 chest and belly larger, flat and slightly imbricate. Scales of limbs small, 

 elongate, imbricate and keeled; of tail above whorls of small pointed 

 imbricate slightly keeled or flat scales, below with a median series of 

 large hexagonal plates with several lateral series of smaller flat scales. 



Color. — Almost uniform brown above with very faintly indicated 

 chevron shaped lighter markings on hind neck and sacral regions. 



• Herpetology of Porto Rico, Washington, 1904, p. 622-623. 



