THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 

 Table 20. — Specimens of Sphaerodactylus copei examined 



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SPHAEBODACTYLUS STEJNEGERI Cochran 



Figure 37 



1885. Sphaerodactylus sputator Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards 

 in the collection of the British Museum, vol, 1, p. 219 (part) (San Domingo) 

 (not of Sparrman). 



1914. Sphaerodactylus torrei Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, 

 p. 260 (part) (Santo Domingo) (not of Barbour); Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 47, No. 3, p. 230, 1921 (part) (Thomazeau, Haiti). — Barbour and 

 Ramsden, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 47, No. 2, p. 85, 1919 (part). — 

 Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 3, 1924 (Southwest Haiti). 



1931. Sphaerodactylus stejnegeri Cochran, Copeia, 1931, No. 3, p. 90. — Barbour, 

 Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 101, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, 

 No. 2, p. Ill, 1937. 



As no new material has been taken recently, nothing has been added 

 to the original description, which follows: 



"Type.— U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 76640, an adult from San Michel, 

 D6partement du Nord, Haiti, collected December 21-31, 1928, by 

 A. J. Poole and Watson Perrygo. 



"Description of the type. — Snout moderately short and broad, its 

 length two and one-half times the diameter of the eye; eye slightly 

 nearer ear than tip of snout; rostral large, with a median groove 

 behind; nostril between rostral, one large supranasal, a postnasal and 

 the first supralabial; supranasals separated from each other by a 

 single scale; superciliary spine moderate in size; four moderately 

 large and a very small fifth supralabial to a point below the center of 

 the eye ; four infralabials up to the same point followed by a fifth very 

 small one, the whole series decreasing in size regularly; top of head 

 covered with smooth, flat, polygonal scales which are fairly equal in 

 size on snout and on occiput, becoming small only on the supraocular 

 region; scales of back small, smooth, slightly imbricate, about 14 

 equalling the standard distance from tip of snout to center of eye; no 

 mid-dorsal granular zone; mental large, followed by two enlarged 

 postmentals ; scales of gular region very small, smooth, imbricate; scales 



