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12. Hemidactylus mabuia, Mor. de Joun. 

 Boulenger, I.e. i., page 122. 



First recorded in Trinidad by Boettger. Kat. Reptilien, page 28. 



*13. Sphcerodactylus molei, Bttgr., n. sp. 



First discovery R. R. Mole. 



Char. Maxime affinis Sph. glauco, Cope, sed supra- et infralabialibus 

 solum quaternis, cauda inferne serie mediana squamarum dilatatarum 

 carente et colore diversus. — Snout pointed, as long as the distance be- 

 tween the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half the diameter of the 

 orbit ; ear-opening very small, roundish, rather smaller than a digital 

 pallet. Rostral small, without longitudinal cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral, the first labial, a supranasal and two postnasals ; 

 four upper labials, median smallest ; four lower labials, first very large, 

 fourth very small ; mental moderately large, truncate posteriorly, followed 

 by polygonal rather large scales passing gradually into the granular gular 

 scales. Upper eyelid with a slightly greater but not spine-like scale above 

 the middle of the eye. Upper surfaces covered with equal, very small, 

 smooth, convex, juxtaposed granular scales, largest on the snout ; abdominal 

 scales much larger, imbricate. Tail, longer than head and body, cylindrical, 

 tapering, covered above with small, smooth scales arranged in verticils, 

 inferiorly with larger irregular scales, without a median series of trans- 

 versely dilated plates. — Light brownish grey above, with two rather obsolete 

 paler dorsolateral longitudinal streaks ; a dark streak on the side of the 

 head, beginning from the nostril and passing through the eye ; tail with four 

 to five white black-edged transversal spots in regular intervals ; limbs 

 dotted with whitish, digits annulated with blackish and whitish ; lower 

 surfaces whitish, the throat and the praeanal region with or without a few 

 very fine brownish dots. 



Hab. Caparo, Trinidad. 



Of the 18 known species of this genus 5 live in S. Domingo, 4 in Jamaica, 

 in Cuba and in Central America, 2 in St. Croix, and in Venezuela, one in 

 Martinique, Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, in the Bahamas, in South 

 U. S. America, and in U. S. of Columbia. 



Family : Iguanid.e. 



14. Anolis alligator, Dura. Bibr. 

 Boulenger, I.e., vol. ii., page 31. 



A. trinitatis, Reinh. & Liitt. 



First recorded in Trinidad by Reinhardt and Luetken, Videnskab 

 Meddel, 1862, page 269. Also recorded by S. Garman, Boulenger, etc. 

 Common in the West Indies. 



15. Anolis bi})orcatus, "VVgm. 



Boulenger, I.e., vol. ii., page 89. 



First recorded in Trinidad by Boulenger from specimens presented 

 by C. Taylor. 



