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Dimensions:— M. C. Z. 8,508. Total length 55 mm. 
Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 
Greatest width of head 5 mm. 
Tip of snout to ear 7.5 mm. 
Fore leg 6.5 mm. 
Hind leg 9 mm. 
Remarks:— This species is very rare if it occurs at all outside of Oriente 
Province in Cuba. It isnot especially rare there. It occurs in houses and under 
rocks and rubbish about the coastal plain; Cabo Cruz, Santiago, and Guanta- 
namo. I have not seen it in the Sierra Maestra nor in the mountains about 
Guantanamo. There is, however, only this rather imperfect inference as to its 
being really confined to the lowlands. 
4, SPHAERODACTYLUS ELEGANS MacLeay. 
Plate 2, fig. 3; Plate 11, fig. 5-8. 
Sphaeriodactylus elegans MacLeay, Proc. Zool. soc., London, 1834, p. 12. 
Sphaerodactylus elegans Stejneger, Proc. U.S. N. M., 1917, 53, p. 266. 
Type-locality:— Cuba, probably Guanabacoa.' 
Types:— There is no published evidence that the types are still in existence. 
Distribution: —— Western and Central Cuba, the Island of Pines, and Mom- 
ance, Haiti. 
Diagnosis:— Tiny, slender, with very minute granular scales of which about 
twenty-four or twenty-five are equal to the distance of the tip of the snout from 
the centre of the eye; only about six scales between nostril and the line of the 
suture between third and fourth supralabial. Colour always brilliantly cross- 
banded, tail coral-red below. 
Description:— Adult M. C. Z. 7,921. Cuba: San Diego de los Baios, April, 
- 1912. Thomas Barbour. 
Snout rather pointed, the distance from the eye being about equal to the 
distance of the latter from the ear-opening; rostral rather large with a long 
median cleft behind; nostril between the rostral, first supralabial, a small post- 
1 For a notice of MacLeay’s life in Cuba cf. Mario Sanchez, Mem. Soc. Cubana hist. nat. ‘‘ Felipe 
Poey,” 1916, ser. 2, 2, p. 73). 
