304 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



i6. Leiocephalus cubensis Gray. 



Dr. Stejneger has kindly informed me that he believes that this 

 name proposed by Gray (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. V, 1840, p. no) 

 should supersede L. vittatus Hallowell, which is the name in current 

 use and the one used by Boulenger in the " Catalogue of Lizards in 

 the British Museum " (Part II, 1885, p. 163). Hallowell's name did 

 not appear until 1856. We frequently met with this lizard in the 

 open savannas in various parts of the island and procured a series of 

 specimens, as did also Mr. Link. They seemed to average decidedly 

 smaller in size than the Cuban specimens, and seemed in general to 

 be of a sandier, more bleached-out color, often lacking the rich maroon 

 on the sides of the head and body, which is usually conspicuous in 

 the Cuban specimens. Still I can find no characters of squamation 

 which seem to be sufificiently fi.xed to justify me in describing the race 

 from the Isle of Pines as distinct. 



17. Ameiva auberi Cocteau. 



The ground-lizard of the Isle of Pines seems to be absolutely Identical 

 with that of Cuba. It is fairly abundant and is represented by speci- 

 mens in Link's collection from Los Indios and in our own from Nueva 

 Gerona and various other localities near by. It is found in open, 

 arid savannas, in the pine-woods, in the plant-association of the beach- 

 grape near the shores, and more sparingly in the scrub, which clothes 

 the precipitous slopes of the two parallel limestone mountain-ranges. 

 In common with so many other species of this family the food of 

 Ameiva auberi consists largely of ants, and it is no uncommon sight to 

 see them digging into the craters of ant-nests or crawling noisily 

 about among the dried giant beach-grape leaves, which always seem 

 to be swarming with ants. 



18. Epicrates angulifer (Bibron). 



The big boa, for some reason or other always known to the natives 

 as Maja de Santa Maria, is even more abundant on the Isle of Pines 

 than in Cuba, though its habits seem to be entirely the same in both 

 places and it apparently occurs in the same sort of country. I have 

 been unable to observe that there is any difference between individuals 

 from the two localities. 



19. Tropidophis pardalis (Gundlach). 



Mr. Link secured a series of this species at Los Indios. There is 

 apparently no difference between these specimens and a large series 



