12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 92 



SPHAERODACTYLUS NOTATUS Baird 



Sphaerodaclylus notatus Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1858, p. 254. 



A well-preserved male, U.S.N.M. no. 81270, from Mathewtown, 

 Great Inagua, was collected on August 9, 1930. While Mathewtown is 

 the type locality of the indigenous Sphacrodactylns inaguac Noble and 

 Klingel, it is a port for West Indian shipping as well, and hence the 

 occurrence of a form like notatus, known to be an inveterate traveler, 

 is to be expected occasionally. 



Another male, no. 81471, came from the cays adjacent to the South 

 Channel cays of the Ragged Island group, collected on June 28, 1930. 



In Cuba the species is rather common, as the following list will 

 show: — U.S.N.M. nos. 81764-5 from the cay west of Channel, 

 Havana Province, Cuba, September 20, 1930; nos. 81767-74 from 

 Cayo Avillon, near Canapachi, Havana Province, Cuba, September 21, 

 1930; no. 81775 from the balconies of Cayo Contelos, Havana 

 Province, Cuba, on the same date. 



SPHAERODACTYLUS TORREI Barbour 



Sphaerodactylns iorrci Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, p. 260, 1914. 



A banded female apparently referable to this species was collected 

 at Rio Puerco in the Province of Oriente, Cuba, on August 29, 1930 

 (U.S.N.M. no. 81670). 



A pair (U.S.N.M. nos. 81822-3) from Boqueron, Cuba, August 

 19, 1930, shows very well the sexual dichromatism occurring in this 

 species. Unlike most vertebrates, in which the male shows the brilliant 

 and spectacular coloring if such coloring is to appear at all in the 

 species, it is the female of Sphaerodactylns torrei which is charac- 

 terized by the brilliantly contrasting crossbands of black and yellow 

 or red, while the male is without any trace of any such crossbands 

 when fully adult, having at most only a spotting of irregular brown 

 dots. In the case of the Boqueron male, the dorsal surfaces are a 

 uniform dull drab without punctulations of any kind. 



Another pair, U.S.N.M. nos. 81827-8, came from Puerto Portillo in 

 Oriente Province, Cuba, August 29, 1930. In the female the char- 

 acteristic pattern of bands appears as usual, but the male has a heavy 

 spotting of coarse brown dots covering the entire dorsal surface from 

 between the eyes to the beginning of the reproduced tail. 



Two mutilated females, U.S.N.M. nos. 78921-2, from Rio Yaleritas, 

 Oriente Province, are referred to this species also. They both are 

 heavily crossbanded. 



