100 BULLETIN 17 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Table 17. — Specimens of Aristelliger expectatus examined 



ARISTELLIGER LAR Cope 



Figure 34 



1861. Aristelliger lar Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 497 (near 

 J6r6mie, Haiti; collector, D. F. Weinland). — Boulenger, Catalogue of the 

 specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 1, 

 p. 147, 1885. — Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 18, 1887. — Barbour, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 52, No. 18, p. 290, 1910; Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 258, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 82, 1930; 

 vol. 19, No. 3, p. 100, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 110, 

 1937. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, 

 p. 225, 1929. 



1888. Aristelliger praesignis Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, p. 23 

 (Gonaives, Haiti; H. Rolle, collector) (not of Hallowell). 



This is one of the largest of the geckos. The type in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology measures 316 mm. in length, the tip of the 

 tail being reproduced. It is probably not plentiful anywhere, and 

 few examples have yet found their way to museum collections. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 62362, an adult from Sanchez, Domini- 

 can Republic, taken on August 23, 1919, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Rostral 

 much broader than high, with a posterior median cleft extending 

 forward for one-half the height of the shield, in contact above with 

 the supranasals and three smaller internasals; nostril rather large, 

 touching the outer posterior border of the rostral, separated from the 

 first supralabial by the first two of a series of about five granular scales 

 which border the nostril posteriorly and reach the rather small supra- 

 nasals; nine upper and seven lower labials, the last ones increasingly 

 smaller, the suture between seventh and eighth upper labials coming 

 directly below the center of the eye; upper surfaces covered with 

 uniform, minute, granular scales, which are largest on the snout and 

 on the base of the tail, where they are arranged in symmetrical trans- 

 verse rows dorsally, and laterally in fairly symmetrical diagonal rows; 

 canthal scales not particularly enlarged; eye a little nearer to ear 

 than to end of snout, its diameter about one-half the length of the 

 snout; a short palpebral spine above the eye; ear opening elongate, 

 very oblique, its greatest diameter twice the height of the first supra- 



