124 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



19. Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus Gray. 

 Plate 3, fig. 1. 

 Salamanquita. 



Diagnosis: — This may be distinguished from all the other Cuban Sphaero- 

 dactyli by having very minute dorsal scales which are not granules but elongate 

 keeled scales with a sUght tendency to imbricate. On the sides the scales are 

 larger, rounded, more imbricating and more feebly keeled. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,536. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Libano, 

 1914. C. T. Ramsden. 



Snout rather short and blunt, the distance from the tip to the eye being 

 less than that of the eye from the ear ; rostral moderate with a very long median 

 cleft behind; nostril between rostral, first supralabial, one postnasal and a 

 very small supranasal, which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side 

 by four small scales, these six scales bordering the rostral posteriorly; three 

 large and one small supralabial to below the centre of the eye; a small spine 

 on the superciliary margin above the centre of the eye; head above and on 

 sides covered TOth very minute granules, but shghtly enlarged upon the snout; 

 scales of back very small, somewhat elongate, keeled and very shghtly imbri- 

 cate; mental moderate, as large as rostral; one very large, followed by a medium 

 and a small infralabial to below the centre of the eye ; two small squarish chin- 

 shields below the mental followed by a few shghtly enlarged scales passing 

 quickly into the small scales of the gular region; scales of chest and belly 

 rounded, smooth, imbricate ; scales of tail smaller, irregularly arranged, rounded, 

 smooth, imbricate; with only a very faintly defined series of enlarged scales 

 below. 



Colour (in fresh specimen) : — Rich mahogany-brown, specked with black, 

 a hghter streak around the head and a series of light dots across the nape. 



Dimensions: — Total length 55 nun. 



Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 



Greatest width of head 4 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 5.5 mm. 



Fore Umb 6 . 5 mm. 



Hind hmb 8.5 mm. 



Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus was described by Gray from an example 

 in the British Museum without locality. Until the type can be examined and 



