124 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
19. SPHAERODACTYLUS NIGROPUNCTATUS Gray. 
Riatems tele 
Salamanquita. 
Diagnosis: — This may be distinguished from all the other Cuban Sphaero- 
dactyli by having very minute dorsal scales which are not granules but elongate 
keeled scales with a slight tendency to imbricate. On the sides the scales are 
larger, rounded, more imbricating and more feebly keeled. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,536. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Libano, 
1914. C. T. Ramsden. 
Snout rather short and blunt, the distance from the tip to the eye being 
less than that of the eye from the ear; rostral moderate with a very long median 
cleft behind; nostril between rostral, first supralabial, one postnasal and a 
very small supranasal, which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side 
by four small scales, these six scales bordering the rostral posteriorly; three 
large and one small supralabial to below the centre of the eye; a small spine 
on the superciliary margin above the centre of the eye; head above and on 
sides covered with very minute granules, but slightly enlarged upon the snout; 
seales of back very small, somewhat elongate, keeled and very slightly imbri- 
cate; mental moderate, as large as rostral; one very large, followed by a medium 
and a small infralabial to below the centre of the eye; two small squarish chin- 
shields below the mental followed by a few slightly enlarged scales passing 
quickly into the small scales of the gular region; scales of chest and belly 
rounded, smooth, imbricate; scales of tail smaller, irregularly arranged, rounded, 
smooth, imbricate; with only a very faintly defined series of enlarged scales 
below. 
Colour (in fresh specimen): — Rich mahogany-brown, specked with black, 
a lighter streak around the head and a series of light dots across the nape. 
Dimensions: — Total length 55 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 
Greatest width of head 4 mm. 
Tip of snout to ear 5.5 mm. 
Fore limb 6.5 mm. 
Hind limb 8.5 mm. 
Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus was described by Gray from an example 
in the British Museum without locality. Until the type can be examined and 
