THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 261 



developed, the foreleg equal to the distance from the snout to the 

 posterior border of the parietal ; four short and stout fingers, the second 

 and third subequal, the third with eight subdigital lamellae; four toes, 

 the third much the longest, having 11 subdigital lamellae beneath it 

 on the left foot, 12 on the right foot, the proximal ones prominently- 

 ridged in the middle; claws retractile into the last lamella which has 

 a median distal suture; scales on soles of foot not spinose, but very much 

 rounded, with a group of about half a dozen enlarged ones on the heel; 

 tail (tip reproduced) nearly cylindric, ending in a point, two-thirds 

 the length of the head and body, covered with scales like those of the 

 body; the four median scale rows underneath the tail very slightly 

 larger than the others. 



Color (in alcohol) : Dark grayish olive above ; head scales with 

 black posterior borders; about 10 more or less regular, narrow, black 

 lines running from occiput to end of tail, made up of the darkened 

 lateral edges of the dorsal scale rows; all lateral and ventral surfaces 

 lustrous black with many small bluish-white irregular marks, which 

 tend on the sides to form short vertical rows and which tendency is 

 even more pronounced on the sides of the neck and on the chin, where 

 the anterior portions of the chin shields become blue-white. Limbs 

 black, with a few scattered irregular light spots above. Sides of head 

 and temporal region black, with an occasional lighter area on the 

 labials. 



Dimensions: Head and body, 87 mm.; tail, 60 mm.; head width, 

 13 mm.; foreleg, 11.5 mm.; hindleg, 19 mm. 



Variations. — As I remarked in my original description, the paratypes 

 though of all ages vary but little in color pattern or scalation. The 

 subdigital lamellae are either 10 or 11 in number. The number of 

 scale rows around the body vary in the type from 42 near the axil to 

 35 in the posterior part of the body, though the fact that the scales 

 are somewhat uneven and not always arranged in uniform rows 

 makes it impossible to give an exact figure. The three paratypes 

 now in this collection have 42-35, 42-34, and 38-34, respectively. 



Relationships. — Following my original description of this species 

 I appended some remarks on its relationship to Sauresia sepsoides, 

 which may be quoted in full: "The Haitian Sauresia sepsoides is most 

 similar to Wetmorena haetiana. The head scalation in the two species 

 is very much alike, the absence of an external ear-opening in haetiana 

 being the only striking feature of the head structure itself by which 

 they may be told apart. 



"But in bodily proportions a considerable difference may be noted 

 at once; Sauresia sepsoides, while a much smaller lizard, is much more 

 elongate in body and has more delicate legs than the larger and stockier 

 species which I am just describing. The number of scale-rows 



