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been added where they now seem pertinent to the subject. During the 

 time that Dr. J. E. Duerden had charge of the collections of the Insti- 

 tute of Jamaica he published a list of the lizards of the island in a Kings- 

 ton newspaper called "The Daily Gleaner." This appeared on July 18, 

 1896, and contained remarks on twenty-three species mostly in the 

 collections preserved in the Institute museum. These specimens were 

 nearly all destroyed in the Kingston earthquake, as were also the news- 

 paper files in the " Gleaner " office. Duerden's notes are valuable and 

 are incorporated here from transcriptions taken from a clipping in a 

 scrap book in the Institute library. 



Besides the publications of Gosse and Duerden, Mr. Samuel Garman 

 in 1887 contributed to the Bulletin of the Essex Institute in Salem a 

 short series of important studies on West Indian reptiles and amphib- 

 ians. Among these notices of Jamaican species occur. Prof. E. D. 

 Cope in 1863 and again in 1894 characterized new Jamaican species in 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 The latter paper is an account of material collected by the West Indian 

 Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania during part of 1890 and 

 1891. Only nine species were mentioned (p. 437-441) as taken in 

 Jamaica. 



Geographical Relationships of the Jamaican Fauna. 



In analyzing the make up of the Jamaican herpetological fauna, we 

 find that out of a total of thirty-four species the following twenty-five 

 species are peculiar to the island. 



1. Eleutherodactylus luleolus 12. Xipliocercus valencienuesii (Dum. 



(Gosse). & Bibr.), monotypic genus pecu- 



2. Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis Bar- liar to Jamaica. 



hour. 13. Anolis garmanii Stejneger. 



3. Hyla bruunea Gosse. 14. Anolis lineatopus Gray. 



4. Hyla liclienata (Gosse). 15. Anolis iodurus Gosse. 



5. Sphaerodactylus richardsonii Gray. 16. Anolis opaliuus Gosse. 



6. Sphaerodactylus gouiorhyuchus 17- Anolis grahamii Gray. 



Cope. 18. Celestus occiduus (Shaw). 



7. Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus Gosse. 19. Celestus cruseulus (Garman). 



8. Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques 20. Celestus impressus Cope. 



Cope. 21. Ameiva dorsalis Gray. 



9. Sphaerodactylus argus Gosse. 22. Mabuia sloanii (Daudin). 



10. Sphaerodactylus dacuicolor Bar- 23. Epicrates subflavus Stejueger. 



bour. 24. Leimadophis ater (Gosse). 



11. Cyclura lophoma Gosse. 25. Leimadophis callilaemus (Gosse') 



