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equal the distance from tip of snout to centre of eye ; a well-defined middorsal 

 granular zone; mental medium sized followed by two elongate postmentals; 

 fourth infralabial a very small one beneath centre of eye; scales of throat tiny 

 flat granules, of chest and belly small rounded, perfectly smooth and imbricating 

 scales of tail much elongate smooth or weakly keeled imbricating and arranged 

 in whorls; enlarged plates below. 



Colour: — Uniform iron-gray, above and below. Both cotypes of asper are 

 males; as is the type of anthracinus. The female will probably be found to be 

 boldly cross-barred. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 41 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 38 -f mm. 



Greatest width of head 6 . 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 9 . 5 mm. 



Fore leg 10 mm. 



Hind leg 14 mm. 



Remarks: — Of the habits or distribution of this striking species nothing is 

 known. 



26. Sphaerodactylus copei Steindachner. 

 Plate 7, fig. 2; Plate 21, fig. 5-8. 



Sphaerodactylus copei Steindachner, Reise Novara. Vertebrates, 1869, 1, p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5. 

 Sphaerodactylus picturatus Garman, Bull. Esse.x inst., 1887, 19, p. 19.' 



Type-locality: — Unknown (The Novara did not stop between Madeira and 

 Brazil). 



Type: — Steindachner's collection without data. ? K. K. Naturhist. Hof- 

 mus. 



Distribution: — Giinther, (Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1888, ser. 6, 2, p. 363) 

 identifies specimens from Dominica with this species. One of these is now in 

 the M. C. Z. and in realitj^ is a very widely different creature. A close examina- 

 tion of Steindachner's description and figure leave Uttle doubt but that he had 

 the species which Garman named picturatus and which is found very widely 

 distributed in Haiti, although apparently nowhere very abundantly. 



Diagnosis: — Large, conspicuous, with the large dorsal scales extending up 

 on the sides of the neck, not almost to the head as in anthracinus, nor only to the 

 shoulders as in scaber; of the enlarged dorsals about six equal the distance of tip 

 of snout to centre of eye; a conspicuous middorsal granular zone. 



» Types:— M. C.Z. 3,341, 3,342 Haiti: near Grand Anse River, 1865. D. F. Weinland. 4 Cotypes. 



