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compared with Cuban specimens it will be impossible to be positive that they 
are correctly identified. Garman, however, studying a series from Santiago 
de Cuba (Wirt Robinson collector) gave them this name and after a reéxami- 
nation of the material we agree with him. There are a few examples in the 
M. C. Z. from San Domingo and Oriente in Cuba. This is the species which 
Gundlach said was so rare and of which he had only caught two examples in 
Santiago de Cuba — probably meaning the Province, as Oriente was so-called 
before Cuban dependence. He confused the species with Sphaerodactylus 
argus Gosse which is really a species wholly confined to Jamaica. 
20. SPHAERODACTYLUS NOTATUS Baird. 
Plate 3, fig. 2. 
Salamanquita. 
Diagnosis: — A small species with rather enlarged, overlapping, keeled 
dorsal scales but with no middorsal zone of smaller scales. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 8,513. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Li- 
bano, March, 1913. Thomas Barbour and C. T. Ramsden. 
Snout moderately long but not very acutely pointed; the distance from the 
tip of the snout to the eye being slightly greater than the distance from the 
latter to the ear; rostral moderate with a long median cleft behind ; nostril 
between rostral, first supralabial, a postnasal (or two) and a slightly enlarged 
supranasal which is separated from its fellow on the opposite side by one (or 
often two) small median scales, these three (or four) scales border the rostral 
above; three large supralabials 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 fine granules, enlarged and flattened upon the snout; scales 
on back enlarged, keeled, imbricate, about ten or twelve equal to the distance 
from the tip of snout to ear; mental moderate, about the size of the rostral; 
two small roughly pentagonal scales border the mental posteriorly; two (or 
three) large infralabials to below the centre of the eye; gular scales minute 
except for a few near the postmentals which are slightly enlarged; scales of 
chest and belly smooth, rounded, enlarged (but not quite as large as dorsals), 
and imbricate; tail with somewhat irregularly arranged, rounded, imbricate, 
smooth scales, no conspicuous series of transversely enlarged scales below. 
Colour (in life): — Very variable, often uniform brown lighter below and 
