126 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
on the tail; perhaps more often with darker stripes and bars; sometimes a 
pair of white dots which may or may not be in a spectacle-like marking is found 
upon the shoulder region; the head usually has a dark median band and dark 
bands upon the sides running through the eyes and along the canthi. 
Dimensions: — Total length 49 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 25 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 24 mm. 
Greatest width of head 4 mm. 
Fore limb 6.5 mm. 
Hind limb 8 mm. 
Sphaerodactylus notatus is one of the most widely distributed species in the 
genus. It is found abundantly all over Cuba, we have taken it from Guane 
to Guantanamo and Rodriguez found it at Baracoa. It is also common upon 
the Island of Pines, upon New Providence, Great and Little Abaco, and a num- 
ber of other islands and cays of the Bahamas. The types came from Key 
West and the M. C. Z. has specimens from there caught by both Count Pour- 
talés and Garman. It probably was originally accidentally introduced but 
seems to have become well established. 
It is found commonly in the woods in Cuba and the Bahamas, but some- 
times enters houses, living by day hidden in some nook or cranny. When 
collecting insects in the forest, and tearing open rotten logs, one often meets 
with small single eggs, pure white, and about 3 x 5 mm. in size and as the ob- 
vious parent is so often near by there cannot be much doubt but that these are 
the eggs of Sphaerodactylus. That they are laid singly is of interest, not only 
because this is also the habit with Anolis but because many other geckos both 
of the Old World and the New, e. g. Ptychozoon and Aristelliger, lay their eggs 
in pairs. The pairs are evidently laid while soft and sticky and usually are 
so closely approximated as to indent one another. They are stuck fast to the 
surface of some crevice on, or in the hollow of,a large tree. They take a long 
time to hatch. 
21. SPHAERODACTYLUS SCABER, sp. Nov. 
Plate 3, fig. 3. 
Sabandija. 
Diagnosis: — A large species, the back covered with large, heavily keeled 
scales which are about as long as broad. The neck and back with a very nar- 
row median zone of very small scales. The head is covered with extremely 
