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Width of head 21 mm. 



Fore Umb 32 imn. 



Hind Umb 40 mm. 



The Dormilona is generally a very rare lizard. Only occasionally will 

 some particular locaUty be fomid where they may be obtained easily. One 

 such locaUty is Puerto Escondido not far from Guantanamo Bay, where the 

 junior author has fo\md a number of specimens in and under a dead dry cactus 

 locally called "Cardona." Although adult all these specimens are small com- 

 pared to those from Maisi. In some of the cliffs of the Farallones de Maisf, 

 Torre, and Rodriguez collected the species hving closely pressed into crevices 

 of the Umestone rock, almost abimdantly. Other occurrences are Sierra de 

 Rangel, near San Diego de los Banos (Gundlach); Santiago de Cuba (Wirt 

 Robinson); Cabo Cruz, Los Negros in Jiguani and Pinar del Rio Province 

 (Barbour). It is, however, extremely rare outside of the few stations in the 

 Province of Oriente already mentioned. It is, of course, nocturnal and as to 

 its habits and activities nothing can be said. It is found occasionally under 

 the bark of a dead and decayed tree (the junior author found two under the bark 

 of a dead tree at Cayo Smith in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba), but much 

 more often about limestone outcrops, either under loose blocks of stone or in 

 crannies and crevices. It grows to a very considerable size and the specimen 

 described would be a veritable monster were its tail perfect. We have, how- 

 ever, never seen a really large adult which has not reproduced its tail on one or 

 more occasions. 



15. Hemidactylus maboxjia (Moreau de Jonnes). 

 Salamanquesa. 



Diagnosis: — A depressed nocturnal lizard, having the toes dilated and the 

 terminal portion of each toe raised at an angle from the base and terminating 

 in a curved claw. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,502. Cuba: Matanzas, 1913. V. J. 

 Rodriguez. 



Rostral much broader than high, with a reentrant in its posterior margin 

 for the forward angle of the internasal and a long median cleft in contact with 

 two supranasals and a small median shield wedged between them; first supra- 

 labial in contact with the lower postnasal and reaching the nostril; nostril 

 pierced between rostral, first supralabial and three nasals, the upper one or 



