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able sailing conditions the exploration of the more southerly islands of the 

 group, such as Inagua, Caicos, and Turks Islands, which are so essential to 

 a full understanding of the zoogeographical relations of the Bahamas, was not 

 practicable. Mr. J. H. Riley, the member of the Expedition whose duty it was 

 to attend to the reptiles, was obliged to devote his energies to birds and mam- 

 mals as well, and owing to the fact that his time on shore was frequently limited, 

 the reptiles did not receive as much attention as was expected. Mr. Eiley, 

 nevertheless, secured some very interesting specimens, such as the Cyclura 

 bceolopha Cope the new Cyclura rileyi Stejneger, of which he brought home a 

 fine series. 



During the summer of 1904, some months after this paper had been 

 sent to the editor, Mr. Thomas Barbour, of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology in Cambridge, Mass., together with several other gentlemen, made 

 extensive collections on a number of the northern islands and keys, some of 

 which had not been explored herpetologically before. His paper 2 contains 

 many valuable additions to our knowledge, and it is extremely unfortunate 

 that more extensive references to it could not be made in the following account. 



SYSTEMATIC AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES. 



Before approaching the zoogeographical problems, it will be necessary to 

 discuss the systematic as well as the nomenclatural status of a number of 

 species occurring in or said to occur in the archipelago. 



BATRACHIANS. 

 HYLA SEPTENTRIONALIS Boulenger. 

 Hyla septentrionalis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 368. 



This name must be dated from Boulenger, as both Schlegel's Hyla sep- 

 tentrionalis of 1837, and Tschudi's Dendrohyas septentrionalis of 1838, are 

 absolute nomina nuda. Should Cope's Tractiycephalus insulsus* really be 

 identical with the present species, which I greatly doubt, this name would 

 take precedence, as Hyla marmorata, based upon Bibron's Trachycephalus mar- 

 moratus 4 is antedated by Hyla marmorata Daudin, 1803. 



2 Barbour, Thomas, Batrachia and Reptilia from the Bahamas, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. Cambridge, xlvi, No. 3, Dec., 1904, pp. 55-61. 



3 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 43. 



4 Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, Zool., iv, Rept., x, 1834, p. 138. 



