SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 119 



commerce of slave-trading days, and it is now impossible to define its original 

 range. As an evidence of its great and somewhat erratic distribution a list of 

 the locaUties from which there are specimens in the M. C. Z. is not without 

 interest. From Africa there are examples from Zanzibar, Mozambique, Mom- 

 basa, and Madagascar; beside those from Cuba there are specimens from the 

 West Indian Islands of Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique, Petit Martinique, 

 St. Kitts, Haiti, and Porto Rico. That it is widespread upon the mainland is 

 evidenced by specimens from Acapulco, Mexico, as well as from Para, Rio de 

 Janeiro, Sa5 Sabastao, Vazouras, Santa Clara, and the Rio Mucury, BrazU. 

 That the species occurs so far inland and is so widespread in Brazil is certainly 

 suggestive if not indicating native habitat. 



Key to the Species of Sphaerodactylus. 



a} Scales of body minutely granular. 



b' Body grayish, dotted or vermiculated with lighter, size large cinereus, p. 122 



h- Body marked with more or less distinct cross-bands. 



c' One postnasal, snout acute, tail usually bright red, size very small . elegans, p. 121 

 c' Two or three postnasals, snout rather rounded, tail never red . . . torrei, p. 119 

 a' Scales of body keeled and overlapping. 



b' Scales very small, almost granular, although distinctly keeled and imbricate 



nigropunctatus, p. 124 

 b^ Scales rather large, heavily keeled. 



c' No narrow median dorsal zone of fine granules notatus, p. 125 



0? A narrow median dorsal zone of fine granules scaber, p. 126 



16. Sphaerodactylus torrei Barbour. 

 Plate 2, fig. 1, 2. 

 Salamanquita de la Torre. 



Diagnosis: — A mediimi sized, stout bodied species, with fine granular 

 dorsal scales, veiy variously marked with broad dark cross-bands upon a gray 

 ground-colour. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,510. Cuba: Cabo Cruz, March, 1913. 

 Thomas Barbour. 



Snout rather short and rounded (longer and more acutely pointed in e. g. 

 M. C. Z. 8,508 from Guantanamo) ; the distance from the tip of the snout to 

 the eye being slightly greater than the distance between the eye and ear; rostral 

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

 supralabials, two (or three) small postnasals and a moderately sized supranasal, 

 which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side by a somewhat smaller 

 roughly hexagonal median scale, the three bordering the rostral above; four 



