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but it is evidently a Tantilla. The type of D. temporalis is referable to Urotheca 

 lateristriga. Both examples doubtless came from Central America and not 

 Cuba as Cope records. 



8. Urotheca dtjmerilii Bibron. 



Only known from Cuba through the collections sent to Paris by Ramon 

 de la Sagra. Never since that time has the species been found in Cuba. The 

 other species of the genus are all from the mainland. Prof, de la Torre tells 

 us that a number of species of molluscs from the Central American mainland 

 were reported as coming from Cuba by d'Orbigny, also from the collections of 

 de la Sagra. Evidently de la Sagra shipped material from the mainland to 

 Paris with his Cuban collections and as these bear no definite locahties in the 

 pubUshed accounts it is quite Ukely that no label was sent with any of the speci- 

 mens and that it was simply assumed that all came from Cuba. 



We suspect that possibly the reverse occurred with the collections of More- 

 let, who gathered material first in Cuba, then went to Central America, whence 

 probably all was sent to Europe. Thus the Cuban species Crocodylus rhombifer 

 and Tropidophis semicinda may have been carried to Central America and 

 possibly these appear now as Crocodylus moreleti and Tropidophis moreleti from 

 Central America, where they do not seem to be found by recent collectors. 

 Regarding the latter possibiUty cf. Stejneger (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1917, 53, p. 

 281). 



9. Phyllobates bicolor Bibron. 



This species so beautifully figured by Bibron in the Histoire of de la Sagra 

 has never been discovered in any collection made in Cuba since de la Sagra's 

 time and it certainly appears as if the history of this species is the same as that 

 of Urotheca dumerilii. 



10. BuFO MARiNis (Linne). 



Meerwarth records a specimen from Cuba and tersely remarks that it is 

 typisch. No great surprise if he really had marinis which is not found in Cuba 

 (Mitth. Natur. mus. Hamb., 1901, 18, p. 40). 



11. Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau). 



This species has a somewhat different history from those preceding. It is 

 one which has been carried far and wide through tropical America from Africa, 



