126 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



on the tail; perhaps more often with darker stripes and bars; sometimes a 

 pair of white dots which may or may not be in a spectacle-like marking is found 

 upon the shoulder region; the head usually has a dark median band and dark 

 bands upon the sides running through the eyes and along the canthi. 



Dimensions: — Total length 49 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 25 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 24 mm. 



Greatest mdth of head 4 mm. 



Fore limb 6 . 5 nmi. 



Hind limb 8 mm. 



Sphaerodactylus notatus is one of the most widely distributed species in the 

 genus. It is found abundantly all over Cuba, we have taken it from Guane 

 to Guantanamo and Rodriguez found it at Baracoa. It is also conmion upon 

 the Island of Pines, upon New Providence, Great and Little Abaco, and a num- 

 ber of other islands and cays of the Bahamas. The types came from Key 

 West and the M. C. Z. has specunens from there caught by both Count Pour- 

 tales and Garman. It probably was originally accidentally introduced but 

 seems to have become well estabhshed. 



It is found commonly in the woods in Cuba and the Bahamas, but some- 

 times enters houses, hving by day hidden in some nook or cranny. When 

 collecting insects in the forest, and tearing open rotten logs, one often meets 

 with small single eggs, pure white, and about 3x5 nun. in size and as the ob- 

 vious parent is so often near by there cannot be much doubt but that these are 

 the eggs of Sphaerodactylus. That they are laid singly is of interest, not only 

 because this is also the habit with AnoUs but because many other geckos both 

 of the Old World and the New, e. g. Ptychozoon and Aristelliger, lay their eggs 

 in pairs. The pairs are evidently laid while soft and sticky and usually are 

 so closely approximated as to indent one another. They are stuck fast to the 

 surface of some crevice on, or in the hollow of, a large tree. They take a long 

 time to hatch. 



21. Sphaerodactylus scaber, sp. nov. 

 Plate 3, fig. 3. 

 Sabandija. 

 Diagnosis: — A large species, the back covered with large, heavily keeled 

 scales which are about as long as broad. The neck and back with a very nar- 

 row median zone of very small scales. The head is covered with extremely 



