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been familiar with the habits of this species in the great Cienaga de 

 Zapata in Cuba. Here it is extremely abundant and entirely confined 

 to the fresh-water swamps. Gundlach, on his visit to the Isle of Pines, 

 reported that it was abundant there in the Cienaga. It has apparently 

 remained so until the present time. 



3. Pseudemys palustris (Gmelin). 



The Jicotea, as the Spanish-speaking Creoles call this turtle, is 

 abundant on the Isle of Pines, but less so than in Cuba, except 

 perhaps in the ponds of the Cienaga, where it is said to be very common. 

 In Cuba, especially at Manzanillo, it is esteemed a great delicacy, 

 but I did not observe that they were regularly hunted in the Isle of 

 Pines as they are in Cuba, where the waters of the Rio Cauto supply 

 many to the markets of the neighboring cities and towns. Mr. Link's 

 series was obtained at Los Indios, while Brooks, Rodriguez, and 

 myself procured others in the streams about the Sierra de Casas. 



4. Sphaerodactylus notatus Baird. 



Brooks, Rodriguez, and myself were the only ones fortunate enough 

 to have found this species in the Isle of Pines. We secured four speci- 

 mens in the Sierra de Casas, while grubbing about among dead leaves 

 and scratching up the ground under the heaps of rock at the foot of 

 the cliffs of the Sierra de Casas. We were finding living specimens 

 of the genus of land shells, Megalomastoma, and found these four little 

 lizards in the same places as the shells. I have compared these with 

 examples from the Bahamas, Key W'est, and many localities in Cuba; 

 all are the same. Another Cuban species of the genus Sphczrodactylus, 

 viz. S. nigra piinctatus, is so far unreported from the Isle of Pines, which 

 is perhaps not strange, as in Cuba this form is principally, if not wholly, 

 confined to the Eastern province, Oriente. 



5. Sphaerodactylus elegans Reinhardt &. Liitken. 



While I think it is generally true that individuals from the Isle of 

 Pines representing this species are inclined to be a little less brilliant 

 in color and to have rather narrower dark cross-bands than those from 

 Cuba, I find too great a variability among the latter to make it at all 

 probable that we are dealing with anything more than a slightly dif- 

 ferent average condition of individual variation. Mr. Link secured a 

 series at Los Indios, while we found a few at Nueva Gerona. It 



