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andreae (type-locality, Habana). Having at least 20 specimens of the 

 latter and seven of the former and finding the variation of the color 

 pattern in the two forms very slight throughout this large series, he 

 was quite justified in diagnosing them under different names. 



In a series of 20 specimens in the United States National Museum 

 from the two extreme ends of Cuba proper and also from the Isle 

 of Pines, a different state of affairs is revealed. 



A topotype of T. nehulatus (No. 28036) collected by Palmer and 

 Riley at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, July 5, 1900, agrees very well 

 with Barbour's description and figure of this form. The white lat- 

 eral spots on the anterior part of the body 

 have a tendency to become elongate on the 

 fourth and fifth scale rows on each side, and 

 on the posterior part they actually fuse with 

 a distinct white dorso-lateral stripe. 



Palmer and Riley's specimens from El 

 Guama, Pinar del Rio (Nos. 27394-5), San 

 Diego de los Banos (Nos. 27853-6), and Ca- 

 banas (Nos. 27640-1), as well as one recently 

 collected by Mr. J. B. Henderson and Dr. 

 Paul Bartsch, at La Mulata (No. 51845), aU in 

 western Cuba, agree with Barbour's descrip- 

 tion and figure of L. andreae and with Rein- 

 hardt and Lutken's original description of this 

 species, and show at most some scattered hair- 

 fine white margins to some of the dorsal scales. 

 I turn now to the specimens from eastern 

 Cuba. 



A male from Santiago de Cuba (No. 26764, U.S.N. M.) is unique 

 in having the back crossed from ventrals to ventrals by numerous 

 (more than 80) light cross bars fonued by the narrow white margins 

 to the scales. The black intervals are slightly wider than the fight 

 cross bars. The white margin is possibly slightly emphasized on the 

 fifth scale row on each side, but there is no noticeable light line except 

 on each side of the tail. 



Bowdish, in the winter of 1901-2, collected four specimens at 

 Guama. Of these No. 29756 is very much like our topotype of L. 

 nehulatus mentioned above and nobody would for an instant regard 

 them as belonging to different species. Moreover, they both resem- 

 ble greatly Bibron's figure^ of what he called Coluler cursor, or 

 Dromicus cursor, from Cuba (but without definite locahty). The 

 other three specimens are an elaboration and exaggeration of this 

 type and that of the Santiago specimen culminating in No. 29780 

 which has about 50 distinct white cross bands on the body, with 



Figs. 105-107.— LEiMADOPms an- 

 dreae. 2 X NAT. SIZE. No. 26764 

 U.S.N.M. Santiago de Cuba 



> Hist. Fis. PoL Hist. Nat. Cuba, Atlas, 1842, pi. 28. 



