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Doce Leguas, Camagiiey Province, Cuba, September 7, 1930; no. 

 81710 from Grenada Cay, Doce Leguas, Cuba, September 9, 1930; 

 nos. 81711-2 from Caballones, Doce Legua.s, collected on the same day ; 

 nos. 81715-7 from Grande Cay, Doce Leguas, also on September 9, 

 1930; nos. 81742-9 from Cayman Brae, September 10 and 11, 1930. 



At the present time it is not practicable to distinguish between the 

 Cuban carinatus and the specimens listed beloAv. A very detailed study 

 of the variations of carinatus in Cuba will be necessary for an under- 

 standing of the status of the forms on some of the outlying islands. 



These lizards came from cays in the Ragged Island Group as 

 follows: U.S.N.M. nos. 81455-63 from Flamingo Cays on June 25, 

 1930; nos. 81465-70 from cays adjacent to South Channel Cays on 

 June 28, 1930; nos. 81472-73 from Knife Cay on June 28, 1930; nos. 

 81476-78 from Johnson's Cay on July 2, 1930 ; no. 81479 from Double 

 Breasted Cay on July 2, 1930. 



Johnson's Cay. — We took a couple of lizards of the curled tailed type but 

 the tail seems to be more spiny on the back than the previous type, but this 

 may be pure imagination on my part. 



As a matter of fact, the tail is very spiny in every adult specimen 

 from all of the cays mentioned above. Those from Johnson's Cay, 

 three in number, have an unusually enlarged middle supraocular, which 

 appears to have come through the fusion of the third and fourth, or 

 the second and third, as there is one less than the usual number of 

 supraocular scales (six) found in specimens from the surrounding 

 cays. A great many specimens from every cay will have to be studied 

 before a definite decision as to the stability of this character can be 

 made. 



LEIOCEPHALUS CARINATUS PUNCTATUS Cochran 



Lciocephalns carinatus punctaius Cochran, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 21, 

 no. 3, p. 39, Feb. 4, 1931- 



Diagnosis. — Closely resembling the Cuban Leiocephalus carinatus, 

 but differing from it in having a larger scale at the upper anterior 

 region of the ear, as well as in possessing a more vivid color pattern 

 with a somewhat different arrangement of light and dark pigment 

 especially on the head. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. no. 81560 (collector's no. 135) a male from the 

 north shore of the bay at Jamaica Wells, Acklins Island, July 6, 1930. 



Description of the Type.- — Head shields large, the anterior smooth, 

 the posterior very faintly ridged ; four scales (an internasal and three 

 prefrontals) in a line between the rostral and the beginning of the 

 supraorbital rinq- ; prefrontals and internasals embracing a partly 



