238 SPHAERODACTYLUS. 



posteriorly; scales of throat very small, increasing until the belly-scales are 

 reached which are well enlarged, smooth, round, and imbricating; tail repro- 

 duced. 



Colour: — Light grayish brown with two conspicuous white bands beginning 

 on the snout passing along each canthus and down each side of the body and out 

 on the tail. Lower surfaces white. The white lines are very conspicuous on 

 head and neck but become very faint on the body in M. C. Z. 8,993, from Arima, 

 Trinidad, R. Thaxter. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 25 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail ? 



Greatest width of head 3 . 75 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 7 mm. 



Fore leg 5 mm. 



Hind leg 7.5 mm. 



Remarks: — I have no information as to the habits of this species. The 

 three specimens which have reached the Museiun, the only ones obtained by 

 such diligent collectors as Prof. Roland Thaxter and Dr. H. L. Clark, were all 

 found in heavy forest. Dr. Ruthven has recently received this species from 

 British Guiana. 



9. SPHAERODACTYLUS LiNEOLATUS Lichtenstein. 

 Plate 4, fig. 1, 2; Plate 14, fig. 1^. 



Sphaerodactylus casicolus Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1861, p. 499.' 

 Sphaerodactyliis inornatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. wis.s. Berlin, 1873, p. 738.^ 

 Sphaerodaclijlus homolepis Cope, Proc. Amer. philos. soc., 1886, 23, p. 277.' 



Type-locality: — Veragoa (sic). Veragua, Republic of Panama. 



Types: — Berlin Museum, three cotypes. 



Distribution: — Lower Central America, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, 

 and Panama. 



Diagnosis: — Medium size, with very small, juxtaposed, keeled, granular 

 dorsal scales, about twenty-one or twenty-two equalling distance of tip of snout 

 from centre of eye ; supranasals very large ; scales of snout distinctly larger than 

 those of interorbit. 



'Types: lost. Truando region, Colombia. 

 * Type: Berlin Mus. 4,589. Mexico. Uhde Coll. 



'T>-pe: — U. S. N. M. 14,207. Nicaragua. J. N. Bransford. A very young specimen, absolutely 

 dry. 



