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brown median line extending to base of skull. Narrow pale cerulean blue line 
on labials, extending beyond opening of the mouth. A small cerulean blue spot, 
formed by four scales, above the ear (this is not always present). Another 
cerulean blue line on shoulder where the ochraceous area meets the body-colour. 
Body above slate-blue sprinkled with ochraceous scales. Tail velvety black 
for three fourths of its length, turning to gray until the last quarter inch, which 
is white. Feet pale snake-gray. 
Females, variegated, gray of a rather light shade marked with brown 
blotches of varying intensity, the white vertical shoulder band distinet but not 
always edged with darker; belly whitish. The colours of the male become 
very brilliant when mating. 
The status of this lizard in Cuba is far from clear. Gundlach found it 
only in houses in Havana and Santiago de Cuba and our extensive collecting 
has never revealed it as a denizen of the country or wilder districts. We have 
found it by no means abundantly in both Havana and Santiago de Cuba, where 
Wirt Robinson also took it in 1908. It is abundant at Guantanamo but only 
in houses and never in the country. It is certainly suggestive that these three 
localities are all maritime ports of entry of great commercial importance. The 
M. C. Z. has a few specimens from Kingston, Jamaica, and it was suggested 
(Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 289) that the lizard probably reached 
that port from Santiago. Whether or not Gonatodes notatus (Reinhardt and 
Liitken) from Haiti is this species or distinct we cannot say, as no examples 
are available for examination. The original description suggests a valid form, 
but Boulenger has included notatus, with a query, in the synonymy of albo- 
gularis (Cat. lizards Brit. mus., 1885, 1, p. 59); a surmise very likely to be 
justified. Whether this gecko has been accidentally established in some one of 
the localities mentioned and then spread to the others; whether it has become 
modified into a valid race after reaching the Antilles; whether or not it occurs 
upon the mainland or whether perhaps the apparently different G. fuscus of 
the continent is the ancestral form, are all suggestive topics for speculation. 
At any rate it is very unlikely that the Gonatodes should be considered anything 
but a recent accidental immigrant to Cuba and it should probably not there- 
fore be considered, as it has been in the past, an integral part of the fauna of 
the Island. 
Since this was written Dr. Stejneger has answered some of our queries. 
First he has compared Haitian and Cuban specimens and found them distinct, 
so that the name G. notatus cannot be discarded. Then also he has shown 
