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of chest and belly smooth, rounded, imbricate, about 10 ventral 

 scales to the standard distance, not perfectly regular in size; scales of 

 limbs anteriorly and below like those of the belly, much smaller and 

 granular posteriorly; 14 smooth lamellae under the fourth toe; scales 

 of tail above smooth, rounded, slightly imbricating, below on the 



Figure 37. — Sphaerodactylus stejnegeri: a, Dorsal view showing color pattern; b, top of head; 

 c, chin; d, side of head; e, middorsal granules. U.S.N. M. No. 76640, type, from San 

 Michel, Departement du Nord, Haiti, a-c, X 2; d, e, X 5. 



median line enlarged transversely into a series of very irregularly 

 shaped plates. 



"Dimensions. — Head and body, 31 mm.; tail, 27 mm.; width of 

 head, 5 mm.; tip of snout to ear, 7.5 mm.; foreleg, 7 mm.; hindleg, 

 9 mm. 



"Coloration in alcohol. — Upper parts drab with a powdering of 

 minute sepia dots; a sepia line beginning on the tip of the snout, con- 

 tinuing on the canthus and widening abruptly behind the eye, where 



