90 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



49. Celestus de la sagra (Cocteau). 



Cocteau, Sagra's Hist. Cuba. Kept., 1838, p. 180, pi. 20; Boulenger, loc. cit., p. 293. 



Found throughout the Island, but extremely rare everywhere. 

 50. Cricolepis typica (Gundlach & Peters). 



Gundlach und Peters, Monatsb. .\kad. wiss. Berlin, 1863, p. 362, pi. — , fig. 1-6; Boulenger, loc. cit., 

 p. 329; Barbour, loc. cit., p. 307. 



Known only from a restricted area about Cabo Cruz, and BeUg, a few miles 

 away. 



51. Ameiva atjberi Cocteau. 



Cocteau, Sagra's Hist. Cuba. Rept.,ri843, p. 74, pi. 6; Boulenger, loc. cit., p. 356; Barbour, loc. cit., 

 p. 309. 



Found in open sunlit places throughout the Island. It is, of course, met 

 with only upon the groimd and is not rare. 



52. Cadea blanoides Stejneger. 



Stejneger, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 1916, 29, p. 8.5. 



Amphisbaena punctata Boulenger, loc. cit., p. 4.50, pi. 23, fig. 3; Barbour, loc. cit., p. 317. 



Gundlach knew little of this and the following species; he says nothing 

 of their distribution. The only specimens which we have seen came from near 

 San Diego de los Banos, near Herradura and Caimito del Guayabal. 



53. Amphisbaena cxjbana Peters. 



Peters, Monatsb. Akad. wi.s.s. Berlin, 1878, p. 780, pi. — , fig. 4; Boulenger, loc. cit., p. 446; Barbour, 

 loc. cit., p. 317. 



Peters described this species from specimens sent to him by Gundlach who 

 could not recall where he took them. The only specimens which we have seen 

 with definite data came from central "Soledad" near Cienfuegos, from San 

 Carlos, Guantanamo, La Demajagua, in Oriente, from Havana and the En- 

 senada de Cochinos. 



Reptilia: Squamata, Serpentes. 

 54. Typhlops lumbricalis (Linn6). 



Linn6, Syst. nat. ed. 10, 17,58, 1, p. 228; Stejneger, Kept. U. S. N. M. for 1902, 1904, p. 684; Barbour, 

 loc. cit., p. 322. 



A common species found everywhere under stones and decaying vegetable 



