96 BULLETIN 17 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



apart; underside with a median series of large plates about two to a 

 whorl; the regenerated tip granular above and without tubercles, 

 below with irregular platelike scales. 



Dimensions: Snout to posterior ear, 17.5 mm.; head and body, 64 

 mm.; tail (tip reproduced), 69 mm. 



Color (in alcohol) : Drab above, with wide cross bands of olive, 

 beginning on the occiput and continuing posteriorly; these become 

 more pronounced on the tail, and their posterior margin is accentuated 

 with a crescentic sepia blotch. Lower parts uniform pale olive-bluff; 

 labials and loreal region with groups of sepia dots suggesting the traces 

 of a once pronounced color pattern. fH 



Relationships. — As I have already remarked in the discussion of 

 Hemidactylus brookii, the distribution of introduced species demands 

 the attention of a monographer of a whole genus, while their mere 

 mention in a faunal report is all that is either essential or profitable. 



The described specimen is the only one from Hispaniola that I have 



seen. 



Genus ARISTELLIGER Cope 



1861. Aristelliger Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 13, p. 496 (type, 

 Aristelliger lar, by present designation). 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF ARISTELLIGER IN HISPANIOLA 



a 1 . Third and fourth digits of forelimb and three outer digits of 

 hindlimb with distal joints long, compressed, clawed, and 

 arising from within extremity of digital expansion; first, sec- 

 ond, and fifth digits of forelimb and first and second digits of 

 hindlimb with "friction pads" expectatus (p. 96) 



a 2 . Four outer digits of each limb with distal joint long, compressed, 

 clawed, and arising from within extremity of digital expansion; 

 first (inner) digit of each limb short, the claw except at its tip 

 concealed by enlarged scales ("friction pads") lar (p. 100) 



ARISTELLIGER EXPECTATUS Cochran 



Figures 32, 33 



1928. Aristelliger lar Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54 (not 



of Cope). 

 1933. Aristelliger expectatus Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 46, 



p. 33. — Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 100, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 110, 1937. 



The original description is quoted in full: 



"Description of the type. — U.S.N.M. 75908, an adult male from 

 Jacmel, Haiti, collected in 1928 by J. S. C. Boswell on a low palm tree. 

 Rostral much broader than high, with a posterior median cleft extend- 

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

 the supranasal and the single internasal ; nostril rather large, touching 

 the outer posterior border of the rostral, its lower rim widened and in 

 contact with the first supralabial, posteriorly bordered by two postnasal 



