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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



39 (St. Vincent: type; Martinique, St. John, Spanishtown, 

 Jamaica). — Reinjiarijt and Luetken, \ r id. Meddel. Naturh. Foren. 

 (Copenhagen), 1862(1863), pp. 174, 275; author's separate pp. 22, 123 

 (St. Thomas, St. Croix, Just v. Dyck, Tortola). — Cope, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad., 1868, p. 311 (Porto Rico). — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 

 188.5, p. 122 (Santo Domingo, Dominica). — Strauch, M6m. Acad. Sci. 

 St. Petsrsb., (7) XXXV, No. 2, 1887, p. 31 (Cuba, St. Thomas).— Meer- 

 warth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XVIII, 1901, p. 17 (St. Thom- 

 as). — Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XIX, 1887, p. 18 (Santa Lucia, Petite 

 Martinique, Martinique, Porto Rico, Trinidad). 



1843. Hemidactylus mahuya Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 105. 



1843. Hemidactylus mabuia Cocteau in Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, Hist. 

 Nat., IV, p. 95, pi. xvi (Cuba). — Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 II, No. 5, Apr., 1867, p. 12 (Cuba); Anal. Soc. Espail. Hist. Nat,, IV, 

 1875, p. 358 (Cuba); X, 1881, p. 308 (Porto Rico).— Boettger, Kat. 

 Rept. Mus. Senckenberg, I, 1893, p. 28 (Porto Rico). 



Figs. 40-45.— Hemidactylus mabouia. 40, side of head; 41, top of head; 42, underside of head; 43, 

 portion of upper surface of tail; 44, underside of hind foot. 2 x natural size. 45, lateral view of 

 last joint of toe. 4 •; natural size. No. 27630, U.S.N.M. 



Description of adult male.— U.S.N.M. No. 27630; Mariel, Cuba;" 

 May 9, 1900; Palmer and Riley, collectors. Rostral much broader 

 than high, squarish, with a nick in the posterior margin for the ante- 

 rior angle of the internasal and a median cleft extending forward for 

 more than one-half the height of the shield, in contact with two super- 

 nasals and a small, somewhat irregular shield between the latter; first 

 supralabial in contact with lower postnasal and reaching nostril; nos- 

 tril between rostral, first supralabial and three scales behind and 

 above, the upper one, or supranasal, being much the larger; twelve 

 suprahtbials, including the small posterior one, the suture between 

 eighth and ninth being under the center of the eye; top of head cov- 



« There being no specimen of Hemidactylus mabouia from Porto Rico in our collec- 

 tion, one from Cuba is described instead. 



