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compared with Cuban specimens it will be impossible to be positive that they 

 are correctly identified. Carman, however, studying a series from Santiago 

 de Cuba (Wirt Robinson collector) gave them this name and after a reexami- 

 nation of the material we agree with him. There are a few examples in the 

 M. C. Z. from San Domingo and Oriente in Cuba. This is the species which 

 Gundlach said was so rare and of which he had only caught two examples in 

 Santiago de Cuba — probably meaning the Province, as Oriente was so-called 

 before Cuban dependence. He confused the species with Sphaerodactylus 

 argus Gosse wliich is really a species wholly confined to Jamaica. 



20. Sphaerodactylus notatus Baird. 



Plate 3, fig. 2. 



Salamanquita. 



Diagnosis: — A small species with rather enlarged, overlapping, keeled 

 dorsal scales but with no middorsal zone of smaller scales. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,513. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Li- 

 bano, March, 1913. Thomas Barbour and C. T. Ramsden. 



Snout moderately long but not very acutely pointed; the distance from the 

 tip of the snout to the eye being slightly greater than the distance from the 

 latter to the ear; rostral moderate with a long mediaft cleft behind; nostril 

 between rostral, first supralabial, a postnasal (or two) and a slightly enlarged 

 supranasal which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side by one (or 

 often two) small median scales, these three (or four) scales border the rostral 

 above; three large supralabials to below the centre of the eye; a small spine 

 on the superciliai-y margin above the centre of the eye; head above and on 

 sides covered with fine granules, enlarged and flattened upon the snout; scales 

 on back enlarged, keeled, imbricate, about ten or twelve equal to the distance 

 from the tip of snout to ear; mental moderate, about the size of the rostral; 

 two' small roughly pentagonal scales border the mental posteriorly; two (or 

 three) large infralabials to below the centre of the eye; gular scales minute 

 except for a few near the postmentals which are slightly enlarged; scales of 

 chest and belly smooth, rounded, enlarged (but not quite as large as dorsals), 

 and imbricate; tail with Soinewhat irregularly arranged, rounded, imbricate, 

 smooth scales, no conspicuous series of transversely enlarged scales below. 



Colour (in Hfe) : — Very variable, often uniform brown lighter below and 



