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equal the distance from tip of snout to centre of eye; a well-defined middorsal 
granular zone; mental medium sized followed by two elongate postmentals; 
fourth infralabial a very small one beneath centre of eye; seales of throat tiny 
flat granules, of chest and belly small rounded, perfectly smooth and imbricating 
seales of tail much elongate smooth or weakly keeled imbricating and arranged 
in whorls; enlarged plates below. 
Colour:— Uniform iron-gray, above and below. Both cotypes of asper are 
males; as is the type of anthracinus. The female will probably be found to be 
boldly cross-barred. 
Dimensions :— Tip of snout to vent 41 mm. 
Vent to tip of tail 38 +mm. 
Greatest width of head 6.5 mm. 
Tip of snout to ear 9.5 mm. 
Fore leg 10 mm. 
Hind leg 14 mm. 
Remarks:— Of the habits or distribution of this striking species nothing is 
known. 
26. SPHAERODACTYLUS COPEI Steindachner. 
Plate 7, fig. 2; Plate 21, fig. 5-8. 
Sphaerodactylus copei Steindachner, Reise Novara. Vertebrates, 1869, 1, p. 18, pl. 1, fig. 5. 
Sphaerodactylus picturatus Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 19.1 
Type-locality:— Unknown (The Novara did not stop between Madeira and 
Brazil). 
Type:— Steindachner’s collection without data. ? K. K. Naturhist. Hof- 
mus. 
Distribution:— Giinther, (Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1888, ser. 6, 2, p. 363) 
identifies specimens from Dominica with this species. One of these is now in 
the M. C. Z. and in reality is a very widely different creature. A close examina- 
tion of Steindachner’s description and figure leave little doubt but that he had 
the species which Garman named picturatus and which is found very widely 
distributed in Haiti, although apparently nowhere very abundantly. 
Diagnosis:— Large, conspicuous, with the large dorsal scales extending up 
on the sides of the neck, not almost to the head as in anthracinus, nor only to the 
shoulders as in scaber; of the enlarged dorsals about six equal the distance of tip 
of snout to centre of eye; a conspicuous middorsal granular zone. 
1 Types:—M. C. Z. 3,341, 3,342 Haiti: near Grand Anse River, 1865. D.F.Weinland. 4 Cotypes. 
