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6. Sphaerodactylus intermedius Barbour & Ramsden. 

 Plate 1, fig. 5; Plate 12, fig. 5-8. 



Sphaerodactylus intermedius Barbour and Ramsden, Mem. M. C. Z., 1919, 47, p. 211. 



Type-locality: — The Sierra de Hato Nuevo between Hato Nuevo (Marti) 

 and Sabanilla de la Palma in the northwestern portion of Matanzas Province, 

 Cuba. 



Types.— Type. M. C. Z. 12,305; Paratype M. C. Z. 13,726. Thomas 

 Barbour. 



Distribution: — The type-locality. 



Diagnosis: — Slender, rather small, with tiny granular dorsals about eighteen 

 equalling distance of tip of snout from centre of eye ; chin-shields of front mental 

 area much enlarged; supralabials small, fifth under centre of eye. 



Description: — Type. Snout rather long; moderately declivous; rather 

 acute ; the distance from the tip of snout to the eye being slightly greater than 

 from eye to ear; rostral large with a long median cleft behind; nostril between 

 rostral, first upper labial and with two or three postnasals and an enlarged 

 supranasal which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side by two scales 

 in holotype, one in paratype; four large and one small supralabial to below the 

 centre of the eye ; a very feebly developed spine on the upper eyehd; head above 

 and on sides covered with fine granular scales, enlarged on the snout; scales of 

 back round, juxtaposed, also granular; about 18 or 19 scales in a single straight 

 series of dorsals in the distance from tip of snout to eye ; mental large, two post- 

 mentals; one very large, one medium and two small infralabials to below the centre 

 of the eye ; scales of chin and anterior chest-region very small, flat, nonimbri- 

 cating, belly-scales larger, round, flat, imbricatuig; no regular series of enlarged 

 scales under the slender tail which is covered with circular series of rounded, 

 shghtly imbricating flat scales. 



Colour (of fresh specimens) : — Body uniform brown, tail brown at base 

 fading into dirty yellow distally, tip pure white. A whitish horse-shoe mark from 

 eye around the occiput followed by a pair of black bands separated by a dirty 

 white area ; then a duskier zone followed by another similar pair of dark bands 

 separated by a lighter region. A very faint suggestion of another pair of dark 

 bands in the humeral region but the remainder of the body rather uniform in 

 colour, except for a few short dusky spots and some transverse series, very short, 

 of extremely minute ivory-white dots. 



