230 SPHAERODACTYLUS. 
3. SPHAERODACTYLUS TORREI Barbour. 
Plate 2, fig. 1, 2; Plate 11, fig. 1-4: 
Sphaerodactylus torrei Barbour, Mem. M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 260. 
Sphaerodactylus sputator Boulenger (non Sparrman), Cat. lizards Brit. mus., 1885, 1, p. 219 et auct. 
Type-locality:— Santiago, Oriente, Cuba. , 
Types:— Tyrz. M.C. Z. 6,916; two Paratypes Wirt Robinson. Para- 
types M. C. Z. 8,508 Guantanamo, C.T. Ransden. M. C. Z. 8,510 Cabo Cruz, 
Cuba, Thomas Barbour. 
Distribution:— Common in Eastern Cuba. Found in houses and in the 
woods to the higher altitudes of the Sierra Maestra. Dr. G. M. Allen collected a 
single specimen in Thomazeau, Haiti. 
Diagnosis:— Short tailed, stocky, the females conspicuously banded, the 
males often uniform brown; scales granular about eighteen equalling distance of 
tip of snout to centre of eye. 
Description:— M. C. Z. 8,510. Snout sometimes short and rather rounded, 
occasionally more acute; the distance from the tip of the snout to the eye being 
slightly greater than the distance between the eye and ear; rostral large with a 
median cleft behind; nostril between rostral, first labial, two or three small 
nasals and a rather large supranasal, which is separated from its fellow on the 
opposite side by a somewhat smaller roughly hexagonal scale, the three bordering 
the rostral above; four large or four large and one small, supralabials to below 
the centre of the eye; a spine on the superciliary margin above the centre of the 
eye; head above and on sides covered with fine granular scales, larger and flat 
upon the snout; scales of back all tiny round granules, about eighteen to twenty 
of which equal the distance from tip of snout to middle of eye; mental larger than 
rostral; two very large infralabials followed by two smaller ones to below the 
centre of the eye; two squarish, slightly elongate chin-shields behind the mental 
followed by some enlarged flat scales which grow smaller and pass gradually 
into the tiny scales of the midgular region; scales of chest and belly, rounded, 
flat and imbricate; scales of limbs and tail smaller than ventrals, smooth and 
imbricating; some subcaudals greatly enlarged. 
Colour:— Females are grayish or light brown with varying cross-bands. 
These may be clearly defined with dark edges and pairs of white spots or they 
may appear simply as darker rather ill-defined, dusky transverse zones. Male 
specimens are uniform gray-brown or very faintly barred. 
