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in front of the occipital bar is light. The Cuban form has much 

 smaller dorsals — 18 to 23 equaling the standard distance — but the 

 new species has larger dorsals which are imbricate, at least on the pos- 

 terior part of the body. The Cuban species has smaller scales on top 

 of the head, on the center of the throat and between the eye and ear, 

 while the new Hispaniolan lizard has comparatively larger scales in 

 these areas. The snout of the adult cotype of torrei is relatively 

 longer and more pointed than is the case in any of the Hispaniolan 

 lizards. The fourth toe of torrei has more lamellae also. 



"The new form, having small, smooth imbricate scales, falls next to 

 glaucus from Mexico in Dr. Barbour's key although it can scarcely be 

 regarded as an actual derivative of glaucus. It is much more likely 

 that it was derived from one of the West Indian forms having no 

 differentiated mid-dorsal zone and more or less weakly keeled scales." 



Specimens examined. — U.S.N.M. No. 76640, San Michel du Nord, 

 Haiti, December 21-31, 1938, A. J. Poole and Watson Perrygo; 

 U.S.N.M. No. 60617, southwestern Haiti, 1917-18, Dr. W. L. Abbott; 

 M.C.Z. No. 13481, Thomazeau, Haiti, Dr. G. M. Allen. 



SPHAEKODACTYLUS SAMANENSIS Cochran 



Figure 38 



1932. Sphaerodadylus samanensis Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



45, p. 183.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 104, 1935. 

 1937. Sphaerodadylus samaensis Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, 



No. 2, p. 214. 



Original description. — ''Diagnosis. — Dorsals imbricate; no differen- 

 tiated middorsal zone; dorsals keeled, 7 or 8 (in adults) in standard 

 distance; scales of posterior malar region faintly keeled; scales of gular 

 region, chest and belly smooth; body with six wide clove-brown bars 

 arranged in pairs, the interscapular pair enclosing two white spots; a 

 dark frontal spot usually present; occiput usually crossed by two dark 

 crescentic markings. 



"TVpe.— U.S.N.M. No. 74970, an adult male from Boca del Infierno, 

 Samand Bay, Dominican Republic, collected on February 28, 1928, 

 by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



"Description of the type. — Snout moderately short and broad, its 

 length about twice the diameter of the eye; eye sUghtly nearer ear 

 than tip of snout; rostral large, with a median groove behind; nostrU 

 between rostral, one large supranasal, two postnasals and the first 

 supralabial; supranasals broadly in contact behind the rostral; super- 

 ciliary spine moderate in size; three large supralabials, the third longest 

 and extending past the center of the eye, followed by a very minute 

 fourth supralabial not much larger than the granules surrounding it; 

 three infralabials, the first much the largest; head above with granu- 

 lar, distinctly keeled, non-imbricating scales which are conspicuously 



