NO. 2205. CUBAN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES— STEJNEQER. 



273 



NAT. SIZE. 



DEL Rio.— 60 REPRESENTS SIDE OF TAIL, 

 AT ABOUT THE FIFTH VERTICIL, OF SAME 

 INDIVIDUAL. 4 X NAT. SIZE. 



NOROPS OPHIOLEPIS (Cope). 



Figs. 58 to 60. 



A good series was obtained by Palmer and Riley at San Diego de 

 los Banos and Pinar del Rio. 



CYCLURA CYCLURA (Cuvier). 



Palmer and Riley were very fortunate 

 in obtaining several fine adults of this 

 species on the Isle of Pines. 



LEIOCEPHALUS CARINATUS Gray. 



Figs. 61 to 62. 

 This species was collected by Bowdish 

 and by myself at Santiago de Cuba and *"'««• 58-59.- norops ophiolepis. 2 x 



1 T-» 1 1 -r.-! . -nT • 1 /-I 1 NAT. SIZE. No. 273G7, U.S.N. M. Penab 



by Palmer and Kiley at Mariel, Cabanas, 



and Marianao as well as on the Isle of 



Pines at Nueva Gerona. 



The colors of a freshly killed specimen at Santiago de Cuba (No. 



26767 U.S.N.M., collector's No. 9077) are as foUows: Above dark 



brownish gray with nar- 

 row irregular bands of 

 isabeUa color; head 

 uniform dark; tail 

 cross-barred; underside 

 whitish with oblique 

 gray bands on throat 

 and indistinct gray 

 cross bands on belly to 

 groin; a black blotch 

 behind eye and two ob- 

 lique blackish bands on 

 side of neck. 



LEIOCEPHALUS CUBENSIS 



(Gray). 



Figs. 63 to 65. 



The name L. vittatus 

 (Hallowoll, 1856) by 

 which this species is 

 generally known is 16 

 years younger than Iropidurus (Leiolaemus) cuhensis Gray, ^ given to 

 a male specimen collected by W. S. MacLeay in Cuba. 



Fig. ei.— LEIOCEPHALUS carinatus. 2 X nat. SIZE. No. 26768, 

 U.S.N.M. Santiago de Cuba.— 62 represents a head length 



OP SCALES ON THE MIDDLE OF BACK OF THE SAME INDIVIDUAL. 

 4 X NAT. SIZE. 



77408- 



1 Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, Apr. 1840, p. 110. 

 rroc. X. M. vol. .53—17 18 



