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Santiago de Cuba. Guama is a mining camp near the coast, about 

 40 miles due west from Santiago de Cuba. He describes the region 

 as a very wild one, with no habitations in the immediate vicinity save 

 those connected with the camp. The mines are some 5 miles back 

 from the coast on precipitous hills and the camp was situated just 

 below them, 



Mr. WiUiam Palmer in the latter half of January and the first 

 half of February, 1902, again visited Cuba, this time the eastern end. 



The reptiles collected 

 were obtained mostly 

 at Baracoa and at San 

 Luis and El Cobre, not 

 far from Santiago de 

 Cuba, 



While stationed at 

 Matanzas in 1899 Mr. 

 J, W, Daniel, jr,, made a 

 small collection of rep- 

 tiles, which he after- 

 wards presented to the 

 United States National 

 Museum. While not 

 extensive, it was never- 

 theless a very interest- 

 ing lot, since it con- 

 tained species not ob- 

 tained by any of the 

 other parties and here- 

 tofore represented in 

 the Museum by unsatis- 

 factory material only or 

 not at aU. 



I have to thank Dr. 

 Thomas Barbour for ex 

 amining and verifying 

 the identification of the 

 various species of Anolis 

 and Eleutherodacttjlus, of which he has made a special study, as well as 

 for data relating to the specimens of Arrhyton in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. His various writings on West Indian batra- 

 chians and reptiles, particularly his Contribution to the Zoogeography 

 of the West Indies, with especial reference to Amphibians and Rep- 

 tiles* and The Reptiles and Amphibians of the Isle of Pines ^ have 

 been of the utmost assistance. 



Figs. 1-2.— BuFo PELTOCEPHALUS. Nat. SIZE. No. 28024, U.S.N. M 

 NuEVA Gerona, Isle or Pines. 



1 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, 1914. = Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, pp. 297-308. 



