^ml^] BARBOUR — HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES 11 



surprise and chagrin I found a large jar of Leiocephali, which 

 had been laid away, and unfortunately had been overlooked. 

 Among some examples of macropus and carinatus, species which 

 I had already noted from Baracoa, whence this lot came, were 

 no less than six examples of raviceps. The whole suite was taken 

 by Seiior Victor Rodriguez y Verrier; and if I remember cor- 

 rectly they were sent to me by him, reaching here just as I was 

 leaving for Cuba two years ago. By a stupid oversight I had 

 lost the opportunity to settle the status of this rare member of 

 the Cuban fauna by a more intelligent notice of its existence in 

 the Herpetology of Cuba, instead of now in this unfortunately 

 detached form. 



Notes on Celestus 



Not long since, while on a short visit to Washington, I had 

 the privilege of examining the type of Celestus (Diploglossus) 

 weinlandii (U. S, N. M., no. 12,145), which was taken at Go- 

 naives Island, Haiti, many years ago, by Younglove. Recently 

 acquired specimens were compared with this type, and two, 

 which appeared beyond any doubt to be identical, were for- 

 warded to me here in Cambridge. Not long afterward, on bor- 

 rowing a specimen of Celestus phoxinus from the Philadelphia 

 Academy, I found it to be the long-lost type of this name, which 

 belonged to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, but was in 

 Cope's possession at the time of his death, as he had failed to 

 return it with other specimens of the Weinland collection from 

 Haiti, which was loaned to him for study and was only in part 

 recovered. 



Thus it has been possible to confirm Carman's behef that 

 Cope's Panalopus costatus was based upon a mutilated individual 

 of the same species which he subsequently named phoxinus. 



