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probably occurs all over the island, as it does in Cuba. One usually 

 finds this tiny creature, perhaps the smallest of living reptiles, in old 

 houses, behind furniture, on the wall behind pictures, and in similar 

 situations. The islanders called it simply Salamanquita, using the 

 same name for the other species of the genus. The Cuban peasants 

 for some reason, which I have never learned or guessed, call it Sala- 

 manquita de la Virgen. 



6. Sphserodactylus cinereus Cocteau. 



Link's series, and our own as well, shows that the representatives of 

 5. cinereus from the Isle of Pines are absolutely the same as examples 

 from Cuba. This is another species, which I think is encountered in 

 houses, decidedly more often than in the forest under bark or stones. 

 The reverse is the case with S. notatiis, which has not taken so kindly 

 to human companionship. It is called Salamanquita and often 

 Salamanquesa, although the latter name is in Cuba more correctly 

 applied to Tarentola, a genus which is as yet unknown in the Isle of 

 Pines. 



7. Anolis equestris Merrem. 



A careful comparison of a small series of the Giant Anolis secured 

 by Link and specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 

 different parts of Cuba has failed to reveal any character by which 

 they may be separated. We did not secure an example of this species 

 in the Isle of Pines, but we saw two, one in the Sierra de Casas, and 

 one in the dense woods east of Colombo promontory. They were in 

 dense foliage in tall trees and could not be reached by our small col- 

 lecting guns, unfortunately the only arms we happened to have with 

 us at the time. I imagine from what the Cuban school-master at Nueva 

 Gerona and other well-informed persons told me, that this lizard is 

 even less common in the Isle of Pines than in Cuba. In Cuba it is 

 far from abundant, but may be found by careful searching in most of 

 the extensive plantings of mango and other fruit-trees, which, of course, 

 are not to be found in the vastly less fertile Isle of Pines. 



8. Anolis sagrei Dumeril &. Bibron. 



This, the commonest species of the genus, is abundant throughout 

 the island. My field-notes state that the skin of the dewlap is dull 

 brick-red, the scales standing out as blackish, while the anterior edge 



