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Habits. — Like most geckos the Lucia or Santa Lucia, as the Sphaero- 

 dactylus was called by the natives, is probably nocturnal or crepus- 

 cular, as we saw none except such as we caught under stones or in other 

 hiding places. The children in Luquillo brought us numerous speci- 

 mens which were said to have been taken in the huts of the natives, 

 though we saw none in the miserable shanty which we ourselves inhab- 

 ited. On Vieques we found a few specimens on the beach near Isabella 

 Segunda under the pebbles of surf -worn coral of the size from a walnut 

 to that of a fist. In the white limestone hills east of Ponce we also 

 found them under small stones. 



List of specimens of Sphwrodactylus grandisquamis. 



