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Sphaerodactylus alopex Cope. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1861, p. 499. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Biit. mus., 1885, 2, p. 222. 

 Garmak, Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 18. 



The types, five specimens which Dr. D. F. Weinland took at Jeremie, Haiti, 

 are the only ones in the Museum (M. C. Z., No. 3,343). They are in excellent 

 preservation. 



The species seems somewhat allied to S. oxyrrhinus Gosse, of Jamaica, but 

 is apparently confined to Haiti and San Domingo. The specimens of S. oxyr- 

 rhinus that have been recorded from Haiti probably belong to this species. 



Sphaerodactylus oxyrrhinus Gcsse. 



Gosse, Ann. mag. nat. lii.st., 18.50, ser. 2. 6, p. 347. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 222. 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 291. 



Known from but few specimens, all from Jamaica. Fischer (Bericht 

 Naturh. mus. Hamburg for 1887, 1888, p. 23) records this species from Haiti; 

 but the specimens should be re-examined. They are very likely <S. alopex Cope. 



Sphaerodactylus dacnicolor Barbour. 

 Baruour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 292, pi. 1. 



The two type specimens (M. C. Z., No. 7,276) are the only ones known 

 belonging to this species. They were from Port Antonio, Jamaica. 



Sphaerodactylus argus Gosse. 

 Gosse, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1850, ser. 2, 6, p. 347. Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 292. 



The commonest species in Jamaica, where it occurs all over the island. 

 What Gundlach (Erpet. Cubana, 1880, p. 59) called this species, was undoubtedly 

 a peculiar phase of coloration of the young S. cinereus. A specimen of this 

 species which I collected near Cienfuegos, and several from Jiguani appear as 

 far as their general type of color pattern is concerned, to be typical S. argus. 

 This, however, they certainly are not. 



Sphaerodactylus argivus Garman. 

 Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1888, 20, p. 3. 



Boulenger, in the Zoological record for 1888, remarked that this was a 

 synonym of S. argus, of Jamaica. I have examined the types — eight specimens 

 (M. C. Z., No. 6,223) from Cayman Brae — and I find, upon comparing them 

 with a series of over one hundred Jamaican examples, that they differ so con- 



