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Dimensions:— M. C. Z. 8,508. Total length 55 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 



Greatest -nidth of head 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 7 . 5 mm. 



Fore leg 6.5 nam. 



Hindleg 9 mm. 



Remarks: — This species is very rare if it occurs at all outside of Oriente 

 Province in Cuba. It is not especially rare there. It occurs in houses and imder 

 rocks and rubbish about the coastal plain; Cabo Cruz, Santiago, and Guanta- 

 namo. I have not seen it in the Sierra Maestra nor in the mountains about 

 Guantanamo. There is, however, only this rather imperfect inference as to its 

 being really confined to the lowlands. 



4. Sphaerodactylus elegans MacLeay. 

 Plate 2, fig. 3; Plate 11, fig. 5-8. 



Sphaeriodaclijlus elegans MacLeay, Proc. Zool. soc, London, 1834, p. 12. 

 Sphaerodactylus elegans Stejneger, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1917, 53, p. 266. 



Type-locality: — Cuba, probably Guanabacoa.^ 



Types: — There is no published evidence that the types are still in existence. 



Distribution: — Western and Central Cuba, the Island of Pines, and Mom- 

 ance, Haiti. 



Diagnosis: — Tiny, slender, with very minute granular scales of which about 

 twenty-four or twenty-five are equal to the distance of the tip of the snout from 

 the centre of the ej'^e; only about six scales between nostril and the Une of the 

 suture between third and fourth supralabial. Colour always brilUantly cross- 

 banded, tail coral-red below. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 7,921. Cuba: San Diego de los Banos, April, 

 1912. Thomas Barbour. 



Snout rather pointed, the distance from the eye being about equal to the 

 distaoce of the latter from the ear-opening; rostral rather large with a long 

 median cleft behind; nostril between the rostral, first supralabial, a small post- 



' For a notice of MacLeay's life in Cuba cf. Mario Sanchez, Mem. Soc. Cubana hist. nat. "Fehpe 

 Poey," 1916, ser. 2, 2, p. 73). 



