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found. The little white eggs were often met with in old termite galleries or 

 under bark and one young Uzard which emerged when I broke an egg was at full 

 term and measured 19 mm. from snout to tip of tail and was much more slender 

 in habit than the adult which are quite stockily built. 



14. Sphaerodactylus oxyrrhinus Gosse. 

 Plate 6, fig. 1; Plate 16, fig. 1-4. 



Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus Gosse, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1850, ser. 2, 6, p. 347. 

 Sphaerodactylus dacnicolor Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, .52, p. 292, pi. 1.' 



Type-locality: — St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica. 



Type: — British Museum. P. H. Gosse. 



Distribution: — Apparently, a rare species of sporadic occurrence throughout 

 Jamaica. 



Diagnosis: — Medium size, with a very sharp, depressed snout; dorsal 

 scales very small, almost granular but slightly imbricate about fourteen equal 

 the distance from tip of snout to centre of eye ; body spotted, a distinct spectacle 

 marking on sacrum. 



Description: — M. C. Z. 7,276, the larger Cotype of S. dacnicolor Barbour, 

 Snout long, pointed, slender and depressed; eye nearer ear than tip of snout; 

 rostral very large with a long median groove ; nostril between rostral, (first 

 supralabial, a large supranasal and a single rather large postnasal; one small 

 scale separates the large supranasal of each side; posterior portion of fourth 

 large supralabial under centre of eye ; superciliary spine prominent ; head above 

 and on sides covered with small granular scales, but sHghtly enlarged upon the 

 snout; scales of back small, very slightly imbricate, keeled, about fourteen equal 

 to the distance of tip of snout from centre of eye; mental as large as rostral; 

 fourth infralabial beneath centre of eye; two smallish chin-shields behind 

 mental followed by some enlarged flat pavement-scales, smaller on hinder part of 

 throat; scales of chest and belly, round, imbricate, smooth; scales of hmbs 

 small, rounded, some slightly imbricating other tubercular, generally feebly 

 keeled; tail with very small scales not in distinct whorls, enlarged plates below. 



Colour: — Lavender-gray with many dusky spots; a pair of white spots on 

 the sacral region enclosed in a dusky spectacle-mark. 



» Types: — M. C. Z. 7,276. Jamaica: Port Antonio. A. E. Wight. 2 cotypea. 



