116 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
conclusively that the name of fuscus and not albogularis must be used for Cuban 
species, Cuban examples being identical with those from Nicaragua, the type- 
locality of fuscus, while albogularis first came from Martinique. Or rather, we 
would suggest, may have come from Martinique for the record is based on a 
Plée specimen and thus it may have come from almost anywhere in the Lesser 
Antilles, so worthless were the Plée data. i 
Stejneger also records examples from Mariel (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 1917, 
53, p. 264, 265). 
14. TarENTOLA cUBANA (Gundlach & Peters). 
Plate 14, fig. 1. 
Dormilona; Salamanquesa; Peninqué. 
Diagnosis: — A large stout, sluggish, nocturnal lizard, with the digits 
eréatly dilated and with the back covered with rows of prominent trihedral 
tubercles. The eyes are large, without lids and the pupil is vertical. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 11,871. Cuba: Oriente; Cabo Maisi, La 
Patana, May, 1916. Carlos de la Torre and V. J. Rodriguez. 
No supraorbital bone; snout as long as distance from the eye to a point 
midway to the axilla; rostral about twice as high as broad; nine upper labials, 
the last two much smaller than the others; mental about once and- one half as 
long as its breadth at the labial margin, its posterior border hardly one third 
as long as its anterior; a pair of enlarged chin shields border the posterior half 
of the mental (the first infralabials the anterior half), enlarged chin shields then 
extend out behind the infralabials in a series diminishing in size; eight lower 
labials, the last very small; anterior and posterior border of ear opening bor- 
dered with five or six elongate denticles; back and sides with seventeen more 
or less irregular rows of large conical tubercles; tail with verticils, usually 
separated by five rows of scales, the limiting row enlarged and tubercular. 
Colour (in life): — Grayish or whitish (varying); the back with six irregular 
rows of dark blotches, often confluent into longitudinal bands; a horse-shoe 
or chevron-shaped dark mark upon the head; the second lateral line of blotches 
on each side meets a heavy dark streak behind each eye. 
Dimensions: — Total length (tail partly reproduced) 194 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 102 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail ? mm. 
