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supranasal being much the largest; twelve supralabials, the suture between 

 eighth and ninth below centre of eye; top of head covered with granules which 

 are enlarged upon snout and specially upon can thai areas; ear opening oval, a 

 Uttle obhque; temples covered with fine granules but with a few scattered 

 enlarged tubercular scales; mental wade, triangular; seven large infralabials ; 

 four chin-shields in a row, the median pair greatly enlarged, hexagonal; upper 

 surface of body and flanks covered with small granules mixed with large tuber- 

 cles, which are not keeled; the tubercles in more or less irregular longitudinal 

 series from fourteen to sixteen across the middle of back; throat with small 

 flat uniform scales, scales of under parts of body and limbs cycloid and imbri- 

 cate, as large as the largest dorsal tubercles; fourteen or fifteen femoral pores 

 on each side; fingers and toes without interdigital membranes, with compressed 

 and upward raised and clawed terminal phalanges; dilated basal portion with 

 four divided lamellae under inner toe and seven under middle toe, beside the 

 large single distal lamella; tail roimd, somewhat depressed at the base, covered 

 wdth enlarged granules and with six rows of conical tubercles set in whorls 

 about six or seven scales separating each whorl; under surface with a median 

 series of large dilated plates. 



Colour (in life) : — Grayish or whitish, uniform or becoming clouded or 

 marbled with dusky; rarely becoming almost uniform dusky brown. 



Dimensions: — Total length: 102 mm. 



Snout to vent: 44 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail: 58 mm. 



Width of head (greatest) : 95 mm. 



Fore limb: 16 mm. 



Hind limb : 18 nam. 



Wliile this species may be really African it has become Avidely estab- 

 Ushed in America. In Cuba Gundlach reported it very common in Havana 

 and said that he had seen it in the Sierra de Rangel and at Cabo Cruz. This 

 is interesting since we have observed it only in cities or well-populated towns. 

 In the outskirts of Havana and Matanzas it may often be seen at night lurking 

 on the walls of houses near the old-fashioned gas- or oil-lamps in search of insects. 

 We have often been told that it cannot stand the glare of modern electric Ughts 

 and we have never seen it about them. Palmer and Riley found it at Mariel 

 and we have heard of it in Santiago de Cuba. 



The species was not improbably brought to America during the extensive 



