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Cayo Romano, and some cayos near Manzanillo. It also occurs about the Pan 

 de Guajaibon, in the Sierra de Rangel, near Cabo San Antonio, Cabo Maisi, 

 and Cabo Cruz. The Museum has a fine specimen from the region of Guanta- 

 namo given by my friend Mr. C. T. Ramsden and another from the hills near 

 Santiago de Cuba collected by Capt. now Col. Wirt Robinson, U. S. A. 



In 1888 Garman (Bull. Essex inst., 20, p. 105) recorded Cyciura nuhila 

 Gray 1831, from the Caymans. He simply quoted Maynard's field notes which 

 read "The Iguana occurs commonly in the chffs of both tliis island (Cayman 

 Brae) and Little Cayman." In 1911 the Museum received from Mr. W. W. 

 Brown the skin in alcohol of an Iguana from the Caymans with no data regarding 

 the island whence it came. The head is badly shot but it appears to be a speci- 

 men of Cyciura cyciura. It is not fully adult. Unless the type is still well 

 preserved Gray's C. nuhila must be disregarded, the description is vague and no 

 tj'pe locality is given. 



Cyciura coUei Gray. 

 Gray, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1S45, p. 190. Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 62, p. 29.3. 



Gosse (Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1848, p. 99, pi. 1) has contributed a beauti- 

 ful plate and good diagnosis of this species, now so rare. His long and well- 

 written account of its habits {loc. cit., and Naturalists' sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, 

 p. 76-77) is as absorbing today as it was when first penned! 



Cyciura baeolopha Cope. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., ISOl, p. 123. Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1904, 46, p. 58. Stejneger, 

 The Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 334. RosfiN, Lunds univ. arsskrift, 1911, 7, no. 5, p. 37. 



This and the various other species of this characteristic West Indian genus 

 are probably all confined to the islands whence they have been described and 

 perhaps to neighbouring islets. The range of each species -is narrowly circum- 

 scribed; and the various species may easily be distinguished inter se by a careful 

 reading of the descriptions, or better still, by comparisons of specimens. Bou- 

 lenger unfortunately relegated to the synonymy of what he called Cyciura 

 carinata Harlan (Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 2, p. 193) this as well as other valid 

 .species; whereas he applied Harlan's name to his Cuban and Jamaican specimens 

 when in reality the name belonged to the species peculiar to Turk's Island. 



Cyciura baeolopha is common about the central region of Andros Island, 

 whence Bryant obtained an excellent series in 1904. Rosen did not find it in 

 the northern part of the island. 



