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commerce of slave-trading days, and it is now impossible to define its original 
range. As an evidence of its great and somewhat erratic distribution a list of 
the localities from which there are specimens in the M. C. Z. is not without 
interest. From Africa there are examples from Zanzibar, Mozambique, Mom- 
basa, and Madagascar; beside those from Cuba there are specimens from the 
West Indian Islands of Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique, Petit Martinique, 
St. Kitts, Haiti, and Porto Rico. That it is widespread upon the mainland is 
evidenced by specimens from Acapulco, Mexico, as well as from Para, Rio de 
Janeiro, Sad Sabastad, Vazouras, Santa Clara, and the Rio Mucury, Brazil. 
That the species occurs so far inland and is so widespread in Brazil is certainly 
suggestive if not indicating native habitat. 
Key to the Species of Sphaérodactylus. 
al Scales of body minutely granular. 
b! Body grayish, dotted or vermiculated with lighter, sizelarge. . . . .¢ cinereus, p. 122 
b? Body marked with more or less distinet cross-bands, 
c! One postnasal, snout acute, tail usually bright red, size very small. ( elegans, p. 121 
ec? Two or three postnasals, snout rather rounded, tail neverred. . . lorrei, p. 119 
a? Seales of body keeled and overlapping. 
b! Scales very small, almost granular, although distinctly keeled and imbricate 
nigropunctatus, p. 124 
b? Seales rather large, heavily keeled. 
c! No narrow median dorsal zone of fine granules. . . . . . . . notatus, p. 125 
ce? A narrow median dorsal zone of fine granules. . . . . . . . scaber, p. 126 
16. SPHAERODACTYLUS TORREI Barbour. 
Plate 2, fig. 1, 2. 
Salamanquita de la Torre. 
Diagnosis: — A medium sized, stout bodied species, with fine granular 
dorsal scales, very variously marked with broad dark cross-bands upon a gray 
ground-colour. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,510. Cuba: Cabo Cruz, March, 1913. 
Thomas Barbour. 
Snout rather short and rounded (longer and more acutely pointed in e. g. 
M. C. Z. 8,508 from Guantanamo); the distance from the tip of the snout to 
the eye being slightly greater than the distance between the eye and ear; rostral 
rather large with a long median cleft behind; nostril between rostral, first 
supralabials, two (or three) small postnasals and a moderately sized supranasal, 
which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side by a somewhat smaller 
roughly hexagonal median scale, the three bordering the rostral above; four 
