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transversely dilated shields on its ventral surface (fide Stejneger these are present 

 in the type). 



Colour: — Light brown; head and body with longitudinal darker and lighter 

 wavy bands. 



Dimensions: — Adult Type (after Stejneger). 



Tip of snout to vent 47 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 35 mm. 



Greatest width of head 6 . 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 11 mm. 



Fore leg 14 mm. 



Hind leg 18 mm. 



Remarks: — An ally of S. lineolatus from which it may be distinguished in 

 size, bulkier form, different colouration, different postrostral squamation, and 

 smaller and more conspicuously keeled scales on top of the head. 



8. Sphaerodactylus molei Boettger. 

 Plate 1, fig. 4; Plate 13, fig. 5-8. 



Sphaerodactylus molei Boettger, Journ. Trinidad field nat. club, 1894, 2, p. 80. 



Type-locality: — Caparo, Trinidad. 



Type: — Senckenberg Museum, Frankfort am Main. R. R. Mole. 



Distribution: — Lowlands and high forests of Trinidad where it seems to be 

 decidedly rare. 



Diagnosis: — Small, generally with a pair of longitudinal white stripes on the 

 body, with fine keeled granules on the body about twenty of which equal the 

 distance from tip of snout to centre of eye. 



Description:— M. C.Z. 12,055. Trinidad: Guiaco. H.L.Clark. Snout 

 long and narrow, depressed; eye nearer ear than tip of snout; rostral large with 

 median groove; nostril between rostral, first supralabial, a large round supra- 

 nasal and three small scales; fourth large labial below centre of eye; super- 

 ciliary spine present; head above and on sides covered with small round scales 

 on hinder part and anteriorly with elongate, weakly keeled, rather flat, nonim- 

 bricating scales, larger on snout; scales of back very small, keeled, nonimbri- 

 cating granules, about twenty of which equal the distance of tip of snout from 

 centre of eye; mental large, fourth infralabial below centre of eye; scales be- 

 tween two anterior infralabials considerably enlarged, four bordering mental 



