FROM THE CAYMANS AND THE BAHAMAS. 103 



turtle said to have been introduced from Grand Cayman 

 is likely to prove Emys decussata, common from Cuba to 

 Porto Rico. The notes quoted are those of the collector. 



I. CAYMAN BRAC. 



Aristelliger pr^signis Hallow. ; Cope. 



The specimens from Cayman Brae are not so symmet- 

 rically marked as those from Grand Cayman ; on the for- 

 mer the brown appears in vermiculations and the transverse 

 bands are indistinct or absent, as also the bands behind 

 the eyes. Apparently there are no important structural 

 differences. Commonly known as the "vvoodslave." 



" Common about the houses and seems to be fond of 

 sugar. I saw several at different times eating it. The 

 ground color of a specimen captured in my house, April 

 18, was dark chocolate brown varied with olivaceous. 

 There is a dark line from the nostril through the eye to 

 the occiput. Top of head mottled with darker. Body 

 above mottled with very dark brown, which markings 

 have the appearance of arrangement in transverse bands. 

 The spots are smaller on the sides, and all are margined 

 with yellowish rufous, the edgings and spots decreasing in 

 dimensions below. Legs and tail transversely banded with 

 darker. Tail lighter than body and marked with four 

 series of spots that are often confluent. Iris silvery, 

 finely dotted with blue. These lizards are rather sluggish ; 

 they are partly or wholly nocturnal in habits ; they live in 

 houses, in crevices or beneath the palm thatch. Their odor 

 resembles that of the striped snakes, Euimnice.^^ 



Sph^rodactylus argivus sp. n. 



Snout pointed, as long as the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, one and a half times the diameter of 



