230 SPHAERODACTYLUS. 



3. Sphaerodactylus torrei Barbour. 

 Plate 2, fig. 1, 2; Plate 11, fig. 1-4. 



Sphaerodaclyhis torrei Barbour, Mem. M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 260. 



Sphaerodactylus sjndator Boulenger {non Sparrman), Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 188.5, 1, p. 219 et auct. 



Type-locality: — Santiago, Oriente, Cuba. 



Types: — Type. M. C. Z. 6,916; two Paratypes Wirt Robinson. Para- 

 types M. C. Z. 8,508 Guantanamo, C. T. Ransden. M. C. Z. 8,510 Cabo Cruz, 

 Cuba, Thomas Barbour. 



Distribution: — Common in Eastern Cuba. Found in houses and in the 

 woods to the higher altitudes of the Sierra Maestra. Dr. G. M. Allen collected a 

 single specimen in Thomazeau, Haiti. 



Diagnosis: — Short tailed, stocky, the females conspicuously banded, the 

 males often uniform brown; scales granular about eighteen equalling distance of 

 tip of snout to centre of eye. 



Description: — M. C. Z. 8,510. Snout sometimes short and rather rounded, 

 occasionally more acute ; the distance from the tip of the snout to the eye being 

 slightly greater than the distance between the eye and ear; rostral large with a 

 median cleft behmd; nostril between rostral, first labial, two or three small 

 nasals and a rather large supranasal, which is separated from its fellow on the 

 opposite side by a somewhat smaller roughly hexagonal scale, the three bordering 

 the rostral above ; four large or four large and one small, supralabials to below 

 the centre of the eye ; a spine on the superciliary margin above the centre of the 

 eye; head above and on sides covered with fine granular scales, larger and flat 

 upon the snout ; scales of back all tiny round granules, about eighteen to twenty 

 of which equal the distance from tip of snout to imddle of eye ; mental larger than 

 rostral; two very large infralabials followed by two smaller ones to below the 

 centre of the eye; two squarish, slightly elongate chin-shields behmd the mental 

 followed by some enlarged flat scales which grow smaller and pass gradually 

 into the tmy scales of the midgular region; scales of chest and belly, rounded, 

 flat and imbricate; scales of limbs and tail smaller than ventrals, smooth and 

 imbricating; some subcaudals greatly enlarged. 



Colour: — Females are grayish or light brown with varying cross-bands. 

 These may be clearly defined with dark edges and pairs of white spots or they 

 may appear simply as darker rather ill-defined, dusky transverse zones. Male 

 specimens are uniform gray-brown or very faintly barred. 



