SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 
1. SPHAERODACTYLUS DECORATUS Garman. 
Plate 1, fig. 1; Plate 10, fig. 1-4. 
Sphaerodactylus decoratus Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1888, 20, p. 111. 
Sphaerodactylus flavicawdus Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1904, 46, p. 56. 
Type-locality:— Rum Cay, Bahamas. 
Type:— M. C. Z. 6,220; a single young specimen, now somewhat dried, 
C. J. Maynard. 
Distribution: — Probably widespread in the Bahamas, for it is known from 
Mangrove Cay, Andros Island and New Providence Island, in addition to the 
type-locality. 
Diagnosis:— Slender, medium sized, with small granular dorsals about 
seventeen equalling distance of tip of snout from centre of eye; on the sides 
these are enlarged and show a tendency to become keeled but they do not imbri- 
cate; upper head-scales very small; four large supralabials bordered above by 
about fourteen small scales of the basal loreal row. 
Description:— M. C. Z. 13,564. Bahamas: Andros Island. Head narrow, 
snout acute; the distance from tip of snout to eye being about twice, or a little 
less, the diameter of the eye; rostral large with a median cleft; nostril between 
rostral, first upper labial, a large supranasal and two scales one distinctly en- 
larged; supranasals separated by one tiny scale adjoining the rostral; four 
large supralabials followed by a small labial below centre of the eye; the usual 
superciliary spine present but small and ill-developed; top of head covered with 
tiny rounded granular scales, slightly larger and flatter on the snout and loreal 
region; back with tiny granules hardly larger than those in the head about 
seventeen or eighteen equalling the distance of tip of snout from the centre of the 
eye; the lateral granules are somewhat enlarged but generally similar in charac- 
ter; scales of limbs very small except those on anterior face of thigh which are 
round and slightly imbricating; scales of throat very small those of postmental 
region much enlarged; scales of tail round, in whorls, imbricating; an enlarged 
subcaudal series; mental large followed by two scales. 
Colour:— Male. Pale cream, the skin showing darker between the scales 
1 Types: — M. C. Z. 6,953. Bahamas: Andros Island, Mangrove Cay. 1-7 August, 1904. Owen 
Bryant. 19 Cotypes. 
