118 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
supranasal being much the largest; twelve supralabials, the suture between 
eighth and ninth below centre of eye; top of head covered with granules which 
are enlarged upon snout and specially upon canthal areas; ear opening oval, a 
little oblique; temples covered with fine granules but with a few scattered 
enlarged tubercular scales; mental wide, triangular; seven large infralabials; 
four chin-shields in a row, the median pair greatly enlarged, hexagonal; upper 
surface of body and flanks covered with small granules mixed with large tuber- 
cles, which are not keeled; the tubercles in more or less irregular longitudinal 
series from fourteen to sixteen across the middle of back; throat with small 
flat uniform scales, scales of under parts of body and limbs ecycloid and imbri- 
cate, as large as the largest dorsal tubercles; fourteen or fifteen femoral pores 
on each side; fingers and toes without interdigital membranes, with compressed 
and upward raised and clawed terminal phalanges; dilated basal portion with 
four divided lamellae under inner toe and seven under middle toe, beside the 
large single distal lamella; tail round, somewhat depressed at the base, covered 
with enlarged granules and with six rows of conical tubercles set in whorls 
about six or seven scales separating each whorl; under surface with a median 
series of large dilated plates. 
Colour (in life): —Grayish or whitish, uniform or becoming clouded or 
marbled with dusky; rarely becoming almost uniform dusky brown. 
Dimensions: — Total length: 102 mm. 
Snout to vent: 44 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail: 58 mm. 
Width of head (greatest): 95 mm. 
Fore limb: 16 mm. 
Hind limb: 18 mm. 
While this species may be really African it has become widely estab- 
lished in America. In Cuba Gundlach reported it very common in Havana 
and said that he had seen it in the Sierra de Rangel and at Cabo Cruz. This 
is interesting since we have observed it only in cities or well-populated towns. 
In the outskirts of Havana and Matanzas it may often be seen at night lurking 
on the walls of houses near the old-fashioned gas- or oil-lamps in search of insects. 
We have often been told that it cannot stand the glare of modern electric lights 
and we have never seen it about them. Palmer and Riley found it at Mariel 
and we have heard of it in Santiago de Cuba. 
The species was not improbably brought to America during the extensive 
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