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found. The little white eggs were often met with in old termite galleries or 
under bark and one young lizard which emerged when I broke an egg was at full 
term and measured 19 mm. from snout to tip of tail and was much more slender 
in habit than the adult which are quite stockily built. 
14. SpHAERODACTYLUS OXYRRHINUS Gosse. 
Plate 6, fig. 1; Plate 16, fig. 1-4. 
Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus Gosse, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1850, ser. 2, 6, p. 347. 
Sphaerodactylus dacnicolor Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 292, pl. 1.1 
Type-locality:— St. Elizabeth’s, Jamaica. 
Type:— British Museum. P. H. Gosse. 
Distribution:— Apparently, a rare species of sporadic occurrence throughout 
Jamaica. 
Diagnosis:— Medium size, with a very sharp, depressed snout; dorsal 
scales very small, almost granular but slightly imbricate about fourteen equal 
the distance from tip of snout to centre of eye; body spotted, a distinct spectacle 
marking on sacrum. 
Description:— M. C. Z. 7,276, the larger CoTyPE of S. dacnicolor Barbour. 
Snout long, pointed, slender and depressed; eye nearer ear than tip of snout; 
rostral very large with a ‘long median groove; nostril between rostral, (first 
supralabial, a large supranasal and a single rather large postnasal; one small 
scale separates the large supranasal of each side; posterior portion of fourth 
large supralabial under centre of eye; superciliary spine prominent; head above 
and on sides covered with small granular scales, but slightly enlarged upon the 
snout; scales of back small, very slightly imbricate, keeled, about fourteen equal 
to the distance of tip of snout from centre of eye; mental as large as rostral; 
fourth infralabial beneath centre of eye; two smallish chin-shields behind 
mental followed by some enlarged flat pavement-scales, smaller on hinder part of 
throat; scales of chest and belly, round, imbricate, smooth; scales of limbs 
small, rounded, some slightly imbricating other tubercular, generally feebly 
keeled; tail with very small scales not in distinct whorls, enlarged plates below. 
Colour:— Lavender-gray with many dusky spots; a pair of white spots on 
the sacral region enclosed in a dusky spectacle-mark. 
1 Types: — M. C. Z. 7,276. Jamaica: Port Antonio. A. E. Wight. 2 cotypes. 
