116 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



conclusively that the name oifuscus and not albogularis must be used for Cuban 

 species, Cuban examples being identical with those from Nicaragua, the type- 

 . locaUty of fuscus, while albogularis first came from Martinique. Or rather, we 

 would suggest, may have come from Martinique for the record is based on a 

 Plee specimen and thus it may have come from almost anywhere in the Lesser 

 Antilles, so worthless were the Plee data. 



Stejneger also records examples from Mariel (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1917, 

 53, p. 264, 265). 



14. Tarentola cubana (Gimdlach & Peters). 

 Plate 14, fig. 1. 

 Dormilona; Salamanquesa; Peninque. 



Diagnosis: — A large stout, sluggish, nocturnal Uzard, with the digits 

 greatly dilated and with the back covered with rows of prominent trihedral 

 tubercles. The eyes are large, without Uds and the pupil is vertical. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 11,871. Cuba: Oriente; Cabo Maisi, La 

 Patana, May, 1916. Carlos de la Torre and V. J. Rodiiguez. 



No supraorbital bone; snout as long as distance from the eye to a point 

 midway to the axilla ; rostral about twice as high as broad ; nine upper labials, 

 the last two much smaller than the others; mental about once and one half as 

 long as its breadth at the labial margin, its posterior border hardly one third 

 as long as its anterior; a pair of enl5,rged chin shields border the posterior half 

 of the mental (the first irif ralabials the anterior half) , enlarged chin sliields then 

 extend out behind the infralabials in a series diminishing in size; eight lower 

 labials, the last very small; anterior and posterior border of ear opening bor- 

 dered with five or six elongate denticles; back and sides with seventeen more 

 or less irregular rows of large conical tubercles; tail with verticils, usually 

 separated by five rows of scales, the limiting row enlarged and tubercular. 



Colour (in fife) : — Grayish or whitish (varying) ; the back with six irregular 

 rows of dark blotches, often confluent into longitudinal bands; a horse-shoe 

 or chevron-shaped dark mark upon the head ; the second lateral line of blotches 

 on each side meets a heav>' dark streak behind each eye. 



Dimensions: — Total length (tail partly reproduced) 194 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 102 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail ? mm. 



