SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 211 
POSTSCRIPT. 
During 1917-1918 the senior author spent fourteen months in Cuba and 
made several interesting discoveries. A series of what had been called Sphaero- 
dactylus picturatus secured in the Sierra de San Juan de los Perros shows that 
that species should not be named as Cuban, and for these individuals the 
name scaber has been given where previously picturatus was discussed in this 
work. Another new Sphaerodactylus is described herewith and a note on 
the Cuban Natrix also now rediscovered is added. 
69. SPHAERODACTYLUS INTERMEDIUS, sp. nov. 
Diagnosis: — A medium sized but slender Sphaerodactylus intermediate 
in appearance between torre: which is stout bodied, and elegans which is even 
more slender and smaller. Dorsal scales finely granular and neck marked with 
four dark bands, between these a median gray and two outer white bands. 
Description: —Typrr. Adult M. C.Z. 12,305. Cuba: Matanzas Province: 
the Sierra de Hato Nuevo between Hato Nuevo (or Marti) and Sabanilla de 
la Palma, February, 1918. Thomas Barbour. 
Snout rather long, not sharply pointed but decidedly acute; the distance 
from the tip of snout to the eye being slightly greater than that from eye to ear; 
rostral large with a long median cleft behind; nostril between rostral, first 
labial, two or three small postnasals and a large supranasal which is separated 
from its fellow on the opposite side by two scales; four large and one small 
supralabial to below the centre of the eye; a very feebly developed spine on the 
upper eyelid; head above and sides covered with fine granular scales enlarged 
upon the snout; scales of back round, juxtaposed, granular; mental large, two 
postmentals; one very large, one medium and two small infralabials to below 
centre of eye; scales of chin and anterior chest ‘region very small, flat, non- 
imbricating; belly-scales larger, round, flat, imbricating; no regular series of 
enlarged scales under the rather slender tail. 
Colour (fresh specimens):— Body uniform brown, tail brown at base 
fading into dirty yellow distally, tip pure white. A whitish horse-shoe mark 
from eye to eye around the occiput followed by a pair of black bands separated 
by a dirty white area; then a duskier zone followed by another similar pair 
of dark bands separated by a lighter region. A very faint suggestion of another 
