120 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
large (or four large and one small) supralabials to below the centre of the eye; 
a spine on the superciliary margin over the centre of the eye; head above and 
on sides covered with fine granular scales enlarged upon the snout; scales of 
back all tiny round granules; mental large, larger than rostral; two very large 
infralabials, followed by two much smaller ones to below the centre of the eye; 
two squarish, slightly elongate chin-shields behind the mental followed by some 
enlarged flat scales which grow smaller and pass gradually into the tiny scales 
of the midgular region; scales of chest and belly, rounded, flat, and imbricate; 
seales of limbs and tail smaller than ventrals, smooth also, and imbricating; 
a very poorly defined series of enlarged scales along the under side of the tail. 
Colour (in life): — Very variously marked with cross-bands on a darker 
or lighter gray ground-colour. , The dark cross-band may be much wider than 
the lighter interspaces; they may vary greatly in depth of colour. Sometimes 
the dark bands are darker edged and have ocelli arranged a pair to each band 
within them. 
Dimensions: — Total length 55 mm. (M.C.Z. 8,508, Guantanamo, 
in house, C. T. Ramsden). 
Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 
Greatest width of head 5mm. 
Tip of snout to ear 7.5 mm. 
Fore limb 6.5 mm. 
Hind limb 9 mm. 
De la Torre’s Gecko is apparently confined to the Province of Oriente, 
the specimens in the Museum being from Cabo Cruz, Santiago de Cuba, and 
Guantanamo. 
Gundlach who called this species sputator (Erp. Cub., 1880, p. 56) con- 
fused elegans with it, although he noticed that his examples from Cabo Cruz 
were different. It was called sputator until we pointed out that the name was 
inapplicable as it referred to a different species from St. Eustatius (Barbour, 
M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 260). It is not by any means a common species and the 
examples taken at Cabo Cruz were under stones not far from the lighthouse. 
The types, three specimens (M. C. Z. 6,916) were taken at Santiago de Cuba 
in December 1903 by Lieut. (now Col.) Wirt Robinson. The junior author 
has received recently a specimen from near Cotorro, Havana Province, which 
may indicate that the species is much more widespread. If so it is surely 
excessively rare outside of Oriente. 
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