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1919. Sphaerodactylus intermedins Barbotjr and Ramsdex, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 47, p. 211 (type locality, Sierra de Hato Nuevo, Cuba). — Barbour, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 47, No, 3, p. 235, 1921; Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 342, 1929. 



Description. — U.S.N. M. No. 52407, an adult from Jer^mie, Haiti; 

 collected by D. F. Weinland, one of the cotypes of Sphaerodactylus 

 alopex Cope. Snout rather flat and pointed, the distance from the 

 tip to the eye being slightly longer than the distance from eye to 

 ear opening and more than twice the diameter of the eye; rostral 

 large, with median groove behind; nostril between rostral, first sup- 

 ralabial, a small postnasal and a much larger supranasal, which is 

 separated from its fellow on the opposite side by a single much 



Figure 35. — Sphaerodactylus cinereus: a. Top of head; b, chin and throat; c, side of head; 

 d, middorsal scales; e, dorsal view showing color pattern. U.S.N. M. No. 52407, from 

 Jdr^mie, Haiti (cotype of S. alopex). a-d, X 3; ^, X 2. 



smaller median scale, these three bordering the rostral above; four 

 large supralabials to the center of the eye; three infralabials to the 

 same point, followed by a fourth smaller one; a spine on the super- 

 ciliary margin over the center of the eye; head above and on sides 

 covered with very fine granules, those of the snout much enlarged 

 and flattened; scales on back small and granular, about 23 equaling 

 the distance from tip of snout to center of eye; mental large, larger 

 than rostral; two small roughly pentagonal chin shields which are 

 followed by similar, flat, polygonal scales which pass rather abruptly 

 into tiny round scales of the middle throat; belly with enlarged 

 smooth, rounded, imbricate scales, about 1 1 contained in the standard 



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