242 SPHAERODACTYLUS. 



enlarged, elongate, slightly keeled, imbricate about nine or ten equalling the 

 distance from tip of snout to centre of eye; mental large, nearly same size as 

 rostral; two large infralabials followed by a small one to below centre of eye; 

 two small, squarish chin-shields behind mental, followed by fiat smaller scales, 

 which cover throat, enlarged but smooth on neck and chest, still larger on belly; 

 limbs with smaller, keeled, imbricate scales; similar on upper surface of tail, 

 but smooth below, enlarged irregular transverse plates below. 



Colour: — Gray flecked with bro\\Ti spots, often with longitudinal dark 

 marking on head and neck. Shoulders with or without a pair of white dots, 

 which may or may not be ringed with darker to form a spectacle-like mark. 

 There may be a faint similar mark on the sacral region. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 28 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 31 nam. 



Greatest width of head 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear • 8 mm. 



Fore leg 8 mm. 



Hind leg 9.5 mm. 



Remarks: — This species is very closely related to noiatus and is probably 

 annectent between that species and macrolepis. It is widespread throughout 

 San Domingo and Haiti. 



12. Sphaerodactylus festus Barbour. 

 Plate 3, fig. 1; Plate 15, fig. 1-4. 



Sphaerodactylus festus Barbour, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 1915, 28, p. 13. 



Type-locality: — Fort de France, Martinique. 



Types:— Type. M. C. Z. 10,622. Paratypes M. C. Z. 10,623 and Mu- 

 seum of Zoology, University Michigan. 



Distribution: — Martinique. 



Diagnosis: — Rather small, with medium sized broad, keeled, imbricate 

 dorsals about fourteen equalling distance of tip of snout to centre of ej'e; no 

 middorsal zone ; scales of upper surfaces of head small and slightly enlarged upon 

 snout ; a large postnasal and four small scales in distance from nostril to above 

 the suture of second and third upper labial. 



Description: — Type. M. C. Z. 10,622. Snout short but acute; the dis- 

 tance from the tip to the eye being slightly less than from the posterior border of 



