ON WEST INDIAN GECKONID^ AND ANGUIDiE. 



BY SAMUKL GAKMAN. 



Gonatodes vittatus (Wiegm.) Licht.; Blgr. 



The females are grey, with scattered spots or with 

 cloudings of brown. There are faint indications of a light 

 vertebral line, but it is very indistinct and has not the 

 black edges present in the males. The ventral surface is 

 light-colored, without the steel bine markings of the belly 

 or the black bars of the throat on the other sex. 



Very young specimens are grey, necked with white 

 spots. These spots form eight or ten transverse series in 

 which each of the larger spots is margined in front by a 

 brownish blotch. The spots also form longitudinal rows, 

 one of them lying at each side of the faintly defined ver- 

 tebral band. 



The eggs are elliptical in longitudinal section, the long 

 axis being five and the short about four sixteenths of an 

 inch. 



Twenty-three specimens and a number of eggs were 

 taken at Port of Spain, Trinidad. 



TlIECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDA Houtt. ; Gray. 



Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadalonpe, 

 Saba, St. Hails and Anguilla are represented in the col- 

 lection. 



Those from Saba and Dominica are darkest in colors ; 

 those from Grenada are rather light; and those from 

 Trinidad are reddish in ground color with the brown 

 bands much more distinct. 



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