122 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
Greatest width of head 4 mm. 
Tip of snout to ear 4.5 mm. 
Fore limb 5.5 mm. 
Hind limb 6.5 mm. 
Sphaerodactylus elegans, a very well-named species, does not vary in colour 
in the manner of so many other Sphaerodactyli. To be sure there is some 
variation in the breadth and intensity of the bands but the species is easily 
determined by its markings and its minute size. It is probably the smallest 
known reptile. 
It is not a rare species but it is one which we have but very rarely found 
outside of houses. Perhaps because it is so much more easily seen on a smooth 
white wall than in wilder surroundings. It spends its time by day behind 
furniture, books, and pictures and sallies forth when dusk comes, scurrying 
about after its prey of tiny insects. Dr. Faxon suggests its native name is 
probably due to the fact that it is found commonly behind pictures and in 
Cuba pictures of the Virgin are often the only ones in the poorer houses. 
While elegans seems to be found in Haiti we cannot find any record for its 
occurrence in the Province of Oriente in Cuba. The M. C. Z. has specimens 
from San Diego de los Bafios, Santiago de la Vega, Remedios, Caibarién and 
other western localities as well as from the Island of Pines. 
Stejneger (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 31 May, 1917, 53, p. 266) calls attention to 
the fact that this lizard, usually credited to Reinhardt and Liitken, should be 
ascribed to Macleay. 
18. SPHABRODACTYLUS CINEREUS MacLeay. 
Plate 2, fig. 4. 
Salamanquita. 
Diagnosis: — A rather large Sphaerodactylus with granular dorsal scales, 
much larger smooth ventrals. Ashy or dusky gray in colour finely dotted with 
white except about the region of the head and neck, which is finely vermiculate. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 7,916. Cuba: San Diego de los Bajos, 
April, 1910. Thomas Barbour. 
Snout rather flat and pointed, the distance from the tip to the eye being 
slightly longer than the distance from the eye to the ear opening; rostral moder- 
ately large with a long median cleft behind, nostril between rostral, first supra- 
