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Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 289, 1885. — Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. 

 Club, vol. 7, pp. 11-13, 1919. 

 1879. Celestus rugosus Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, p. 272 (type 

 locality, Puerto Plata, San Domingo; type, U. S. N. M. No. 10260; collector 

 Fraser). — Diploglossus rugosus Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of 

 lizards in the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 288, 1885. — 

 Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 27, pi. 1, figs. 1-2, 

 1901 (Puerto Plata, San Domingo). — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 44, No. 2, p. 305, 1914; Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 7, p. 13, 

 1919; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 99, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 123, 1935; 

 BuU. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 138, 1937. 



1886. Diploglossus (Celestus) ohlendorffii Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg, 

 vol. 3, p. 17, extr. p. 1, pi., figs. 1-lc (type locality, Hayti; type, Mus. 

 Hamburg No. 855a). 



1887. Diploglossus striatus Carman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 21 (J6r^mie, 

 Hayti). — Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, p. 29, 1888 (Gonalves, 

 Haiti; collector, H. Rolle). — Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, 

 vol. 18, pp. 27-29, 1901 (Hayti; San Domingo). 



1898. Diploglossus nuchalis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898, p. 920, 

 pi. 56, fig. 1 (type locality ?; presented by Dr. F. Werner). — Werner, 

 Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 27, p. 27, 1910 (Port-au-Prince, Hayti). 



It should be noted that Cope was in error when he gave "Gonave 

 Island" as the type locality of Celestus weinlandii. This specimen, as 

 well as all the other herpetological material and most of the birds 

 collected by A. C. Younglove in 1866, came from within 25 miles of 

 Port-au-Prince, and Younglove's detailed letters to Professor Baird 

 contain no reference whatever to Gonave Island. 



Description. — ^U.S.N.M. No. 61931 from Laguna, near Samand, 

 Dominican Republic, taken on March 10, 1919, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Head moderately elongate; its width abouth three-fourths its length 

 measured from the posterior border of the ear. Rostral pentagonal, 

 much wider than high, not touching the nasal, in contact with the 

 first supralabial and followed by a pair of supranasals broadly in 

 contact ; a pair of frontonasals larger than the supranasals ; prefrontal 

 undivided, roughly convex in outline anteriorly, concave posteriorly, 

 where it forms a broad suture with the anterior border of the frontal; 

 frontal twice as long as broad, wider than the supraoculars, in contact 

 broadly with the second and third, very narrowly with the first on one 

 side only; a pair of frontoparietals separated from each other by the 

 posterior prolongation of the frontal; parietals large, about twice the 

 size of the interparietal, separated from the supraoculars by two small 

 shields and the frontoparietals and from each other by the heart- 

 shaped interparietal and the nearly triangular occipital, which very 

 nearly equals the interparietal in size; five supraoculars, the second 

 much the largest; a single nasal in contact \vith the first upper labial, 

 which separates it completely from the rostral; three loreals in a row 

 between nasal and preocular, first in contact above with supranasal 

 and frontonasal; second with frontonasal, prefrontal, first supraocular 



