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c 2 . Head covered with relatively large regular shields. 

 d 1 . Occipital shield present (family Anguidae). 

 e 1 . External ear opening present. 



p. Limbs strong, 5-toed Celestus (p. 243) 



f 2 . Limbs weak, 4-toed Sauresia (p. 255) 



e 2 . No external ear opening Wetmor9na (p. 259) 



d 2 . Occipital shield absent. 

 e 1 . Ventral scales rounded, imbricate (family Scincidae) . Mabuya (p. 303) 

 e 2 . Ventral scales in squarish series, scarcely imbricate 



(family Teiidae) Ameiva (p. 262) 



a 2 . No limbs (family Amphisbaenidae) Amphisbaena (p. 297) 



Of the 17 genera listed above, 4 are endemic — Audantia and 

 Hispariiolus of the family Iguanidae and Wetmorena and Sauresia of 

 the family Anguidae. The species of Hemidactylus — brookii and 

 mabouia — were introduced, and probably Sphaerodactylus cinereus 

 also. 



Family GEKKONIDAE 



Genus GONATODES Fitzinger 



1843. Gonatodes Fitzinger, Systema reptilium, pp. 18, 91 (type, Gymnodactylus 

 albogularis Dumeril and Bibron). 



Representatives of this genus occur in tropical regions of the Old 

 World as well as in tropical America and the West Indies. One species 

 is known from Hispaniola, where it seems to be rare. Much more 

 collecting will have to be done before its range, variation, and habits 

 can be satisfactorily discussed. 



GONATODES NOTATUS (Reinhardt and Liitken) 



Figure 29 



18C3. Gymnodactylus notatus Reinhardt and Lutken, Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. 



(Kjobenhavn), 1863, p. 280, extr. p. 128 (type locality, Acquin, Haiti; type, 



Mus. Copenhagen No. 18; collector, H. Koch). 

 1888. Gonatodes albogularis Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, p. 24 



(Gonaives, Haiti; H. Rolle, collector) (not of Dumeril and Bibron). — Meer- 



warth, Mitth. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 16, 1901 (Port-au-Prince, 



Haiti). 

 1914. Gonatodes notatus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 



256; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 81, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 99, 1935; Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 52, No. 2, p. 108, 1937.— Stejneger, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 264, 1917. — Barbour and Ramsden, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 47, No. 2, p. 115, 1919. — Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928. 



Descrij)tion. — U.S.N.M. No. 74013, an adult male from Diquini 

 Cave near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, collected on March 20, 1928, by A. J. 



