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Width of head 21 mm. 
Fore limb 32 mm. 
Hind limb 40 mm. 
The Dormilona is generally a very rare lizard. Only occasionally will 
some particular locality be found where they may be obtained easily. One 
such locality is Puerto Escondido not far from Guantanamo Bay, where the 
junior author has found a number of specimens in and under a dead dry cactus 
locally called ‘Cardona.’ Although adult all these specimens are small com- 
pared to those from Maisi. In some of the cliffs of the Farallones de Maisf, 
Torre, and Rodriguez collected the species living closely pressed into crevices 
of the limestone rock, almost abundantly. Other occurrences are Sierra de 
Rangel, near San Diego de los Bafios (Gundlach); Santiago de Cuba (Wirt 
Robinson); Cabo Cruz, Los Negros in Jiguanf and Pinar del Rio Province 
(Barbour). It is, however, extremely rare outside of the few stations in the 
Province of Oriente already mentioned. It is, of course, nocturnal and as to 
its habits and activities nothing can be said. It is found occasionally under 
the bark of a dead and decayed tree (the junior author found two under the bark 
of a dead tree at Cayo Smith in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba), but much 
more often about limestone outcrops, either under loose blocks of stone or in 
crannies and crevices. It grows to a very considerable size and the specimen 
described would be a veritable monster were its tail perfect. We have, how- 
ever, never seen a really large adult which has not reproduced its tail on one or 
more occasions. 
15. HemipactyLtus MABourA (Moreau de Jonnés). 
Salamanquesa. 
Diagnosis: — A depressed nocturnal lizard, having the toes dilated and the 
terminal portion of each toe raised at an angle from the base and terminating 
in a curved claw. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,502. Cuba: Matanzas, 1913. V. J. 
Rodriguez. 
Rostral much broader than high, with a reentrant in its posterior margin 
for the forward angle of the internasal and a long median cleft in contact with 
two supranasals and a small median shield wedged between them; first supra- 
labial in contact with the lower postnasal and reaching the nostril; nostril 
pierced between rostral, first supralabial and three nasals, the upper one or 
