80 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
ramsdeni, while they are related to each other, have no close affinity with any 
Bufo anywhere. The single Hyla is decidedly similar to H. dominicensis of Haiti 
or H. brunnea of Jamaica. Upon Jamaica, however, another very peculiar 
Hyla, H. lichenata, is found with a possible ally, H. vasta, in Haiti; and there, 
still a third species, H. pulchrilineata, occurs with affinities to H. eximia of 
Mexico, H. andersonii of the white cedar swamps of the eastern United States 
and so to H. arborea of Europe. The beautiful little Phyllobates is the only 
species of its genus which is not found upon the mainland, except for P. trini- 
tatis which is probably not congeneric. The Eleutherodactyli, six in number, 
embrace four which are peculiar to the island. These four might be said per- 
haps to be rather more like mainland than Antillean types; H. ricordii, however, 
is found in the Bahamas and Florida, having appeared there recently, and EZ. 
auriculatus is more common in Haiti and Porto Rico than it is in Cuba, its type- 
locality. 
Among the reptiles Deiroptyx and Chamaeleolis are modifications of an 
Anolis-like stock, probably Anolis itself. Monotypie and confined to Cuba, 
they suggest that they have evolved rather recently, in spite of their great 
divergence from Anolis; for they have never spread elsewhere. Cricolepis, 
also monotypic, tells a different tale, for, although it too is peculiar to Cuba, it 
belongs to an archaic group which persists with but few species, almost all of 
which are rare and confined to extremely restricted habitats. The Norops is 
very like the continental species, and no other of the genus is found among the 
Antilles. The Celestus, the Cyclura, the four Leiocephali, and many of the 
species of Anolis are truly West Indian; that is, they belong to groups which 
appear to have evolved themselves upon the greater Antillean land area of 
which the West Indies are now the disrupted remnants. To this category 
belong several of the Sphaerodactyli, S. notatus, picturatus, elegans, cinereus, 
nigropunctatus, which are allied to corticolus of the Bahamas, leaving only S. 
torrei of the Cuban species without close relations outside of Cuba or occurring 
elsewhere among the islands. As a matter of fact, S. lorrei is very possibly 
derived from some elegans-like ancestor, perhaps from elegans itself, and since 
elegans does not appear in eastern Cuba, although it is found in Haiti, it is possi- 
ble that it really represents elegans thus modified in Oriente; for torrei seems to 
be found in Oriente only, the one province of Cuba from which elegans is wanting. 
It is perhaps more probably related to decoratus of the Bahamas. The Taren- 
tola is an enigma; supposedly entirely confined to Cuba, it has been found 
recently in the Bahamas, upon Exuma, and being retiring and hard to find it 
