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entire body covered with granules, the dorsals small rounded and tubercular, 

 not keeled; the granules of the flanks slightly enlarged. 



Description: — Type. M. C. Z. 13,436. Snout short and broad, not de- 

 pressed but sharply declivous; eye slightly nearer tip of snout than ear; rostral 

 moderate with a median groove; nostril between rostral, first supralabial, a large 

 supranasal and one other scale ; the supranasal of each side being separated from 

 its fellow by a single median scale which fits in part into a reentrant in the poste- 

 rior border of the rostral ; third large supranasal extending well under eye ; super- 

 ciliary spine well developed; head above and on sides covered with small round 

 granules but slightly enlarged on the snout; considerably enlarged and flattened 

 on loreal region; dorsal granules similar, somewhat larger but less in size than 

 those of flanks; about sixteen middorsal granules equal the distance from tip of 

 snout to centre of eye; mental large, much larger than rostral; two large post- 

 mentals followed by a few enlarged chin-shields; three large infralabials, suture 

 between third and fourth (a small one) about beneath the centre of the eye; 

 granules of throat very small, changing abruptly on posterior gular region to the 

 roundish, flat, imbricate, smooth, ventrals; tail with fine small scales, not in 

 conspicuous whorls, scales of imder surface enlarged but apparently not to form 

 the large transverse plates so often seen. 



Colour: — Light reddish brown with large coarse dots of darker brown. 

 Belly pale ashy gray. In some cases the spots are wholly wanting. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 32 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 27 -|-mm. 



Greatest width of head 6 . 2 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 9 mm. 



Foreleg 8.5 mm. 



Hind leg 10 mm. 



Remarks: — This species is known only from the three specimens before me 

 from the Exuma Cays. In habit and general appearance it is most like pacificus 

 but the granules are very different in character and size. 



Since writing the above Mr. C. T. Ranisden has shown me two spotted 

 sphaerodactyls from Cuba(l from Santiago, the other from Guantanamo) which 

 in habit and squamation decidedly recall torrei. They differ, however, so widely 

 in colouration that I have decided to let gihhus stand as a full species until torrei 

 is shown to vary suflficiently to include it. 



