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large (or four large and one small) supralabials to below the centre of the eye; 

 a spine on the superciliary margin over the centre of the eye; head above and 

 on sides covered with fine granular scales enlarged upon the snout; scales of 

 back all tiny round granules; mental large, larger than rostral; two very large 

 infralabials, followed by two much smaller ones to below the centre of the eye; 

 two squarish, slightly elongate chin-shields behind the mental followed by some 

 enlarged flat scales which grow smaller and pass gradually into the tiny scales 

 of the midgular region; scales of chest and belly, rounded, flat, and imbricate; 

 scales of Umbs and tail smaller than ventrals, smooth also, and imbricating; 

 a very poorly defined series of enlarged scales along the under side of the tail. 



Colour (in Ufe) : — Very variously marked with cross-bands on a darker 

 or lighter gray ground-colour. The dark cross-band may be much wider than 

 the Ughter interspaces; they may vary greatly in depth of colour. Sometimes 

 the dark bands are darker edged and have ocelU arranged a pair to each band 

 within them. 



Dimensions: — Total length 55 mm. (M.C.Z. 8,508, Guantanamo, 



in house, C. T. Ramsden). 

 Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 

 Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 



Greatest width of head 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 7 . 5 mm. 



Fore hmb 6 . 5 mm. 

 Hind hmb 9 mm. 



De la Torre's Gecko is apparently confined to the Province of Oriente, 

 the specimens in the Museum being from Cabo Cruz, Santiago de Cuba, and 

 Guantanamo. 



Gundlach who called this species sputator (Erp. Cub., 1880, p. 56) con- 

 fused elegans with it, although he noticed that his examples from Cabo Cruz 

 were different. It was called sputator until we pointed out that the name was 

 inapphcable as it referred to a different species from St. Eustatius (Barbour, 

 M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 260). It is not by any means a common species and the 

 examples taken at Cabo Cruz were under stones not far from the lighthouse. 

 The types, three specimens (M. C. Z. 6,916) were taken at Santiago de Cuba 

 in December 1903 by Lieut, (now Col.) Wirt Robinson. The junior author 

 has received recently a specimen from near Cotorro, Havana Province, which 

 may indicate that the species is much more widespread. If so it is sui-ely 

 excessively rare outside of Oriente. 



