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SPHAERODACTYLUS COPEI Steindachner 



Figure 36; Plate 1 



1869. Sphaerodactylus copei Steindachner, Reise Novara, Vertebrates, vol. 1, 

 p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5 (type locality ?). — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 47, No. 3, p. 259, pi. 7, fig. 2, pi. 21, figs. 5-8, 1921; Zoologica, vol. 11, 

 No. 4, p. 84, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 104, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 82, No. 2, p. 114, 1937.— Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 41, p. 54, 1928. 



1887. Sphaerodactylus picturatus Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 19 (type 

 locality, Grand Anse River, western Hayti). — Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 28, p. 74, 1915. — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 343, 1929. 



1889. Sphaerodactylus anthracinus Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of 

 lizards in the collection of the British Museum, vol 1, p. 225 (San Domingo) 

 (not of Cope). — Meerwarth, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 19, 

 1901 (S. Domingo). 



1863. Sphaeriodactylus fantasticus Reinhardt and Lutken, Vid. Med. Nat. 

 Foren. Kjobenhavn, 1862, p. 277; extr. p. 125 (Acquin, Hayti) (not of Dumdril 

 and Bibron). 



Figure 36. — Sphaerodactylus copei: a, Side of head; b, top of head; c, middorsal scales; d, chin 

 and throat. M.C.Z. No. 3342, from Grand Anse River, Haiti (type of S. picturatus 

 Garman). (After Barbour.) Three times natural size. 



The description of the largest of the three female cotypes of Gar- 

 man's picturatus, now M. C. Z. No. 3342, is copied from Dr. Barbour's 

 Sphaerodactylus as follows: 



"Snout rather long, head distinctly narrow; the eye a very little 

 nearer the tip of snout than the ear; rostral large with a median groove; 

 nostril between rostral, first supralabial, a laige supranasal and one or 

 two small scales; a small scale separates the supranasal of each side; 

 the fifth supralabial, a very small one, below the centre of the eye; 

 superciliary spine present but very small and feeble; head above and 

 on sides covered with small granules which are not flat nor yet dis- 

 tinctly keeled, rather sharply swollen, slightly enlarged in snout; 



