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Mat 6, 1921 Vol. VII, i p. 81-85 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



SOME REPTILES FROM OLD PROVIDENCE ISLAND 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



Not long since, my friend Mr. E. R. Dunn chanced upon a 

 jar of reptiles from Old Providence Island, which had been pre- 

 served for some time in the United States National Museum. 

 At Mr. Dunn's suggestion Dr. Stejneger with characteristic 

 generosity sent them to me for examination, as I have long been 

 interested in the fauna of Carribaean Islands. 



Subsequent search for additional specimens from the same 

 island revealed the fact that there were two specimens of Aristel- 

 liger (U.S.N. M., no. 13,878), an example of Micrurus nigro- 

 cinctus (Girard) (U. S.N.M., no. 1371) and four frogs, ap- 

 parently a large Leptodactylus (U. S.N.M., no. 13,873 (2)) 

 which also had been catalogued in the National Museum years 

 ago but had not been studied. These were forwarded to me in 

 Cambridge; but very unfortunately they disappeared in transit, 

 having been sent by ordinary post, uninsured and not registered! 



Old Providence, or Providencia la Vieja, as it is often called, 

 lies, a single small island about four and one-half miles long, on 

 a submarine bank of much larger size. As with Saint Andrew 

 (San Andres) and the other islets near at hand, this one also 

 belongs to Colombia. It is situated in Latitude 13° 22', one 

 hundred and twenty miles from the nearest point of the Mos- 

 quito coast, and on the north side there is a little village, called 



