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SPH^ERODACTYLUS PUNCTATISSIMUS D. & B. ; Gray. 



A couple of specimens from Caibarien, Cuba, have nar- 

 row longitudinal streaks of brown, as figured by Cocteau, 

 Rept. Cuba, pi. 18 ; a third is nearly uniform grey ; and 

 a fourth is thickly sprinkled with white dots. 



SPILERODACTYLUS PICTURATUS sp. n. 



Snout pointed, elongate, about one-half longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear, or one and one- 

 half times the orbital diameter. Ear-opening oval, oblique, 

 as large as the digital expansions. Rostral large, with a 

 median cleft at the upper edge ; nostril between rostral 

 first labial and three scales ; four upper and four lower 

 labials, anterior lower as long as the first two of the up- 

 per ; mental large, meeting a pair of rounded small scales 

 between the first pair of lower labials. Upper eyelid 

 with a small, spine-like scale. Head covered with keeled, 

 granular scales, larger along the median line and toward 

 the rostral. Dorsal scales strongly keeled, imbricate, 

 very large, largest about twice the diameter of the ven- 

 trals, in eight or nine series at each side of two or more 

 vertebral series of granules ; gular granules very small, 

 larger toward the mental ; ventrals moderate, imbricate, 

 smooth ; caudal scales imbricate, hinder margin rounded, 

 anterior keeled, inferior a series of transverse plates. 



Brownish. The head is marked with white in a narrow 

 streak on each side from the rostral on the canthus and 

 over the supraorbitals to the back of the head, in a me- 

 dian streak on the forehead, a rounded spot above each 

 ear, another on the occiput and an oblique streak behind 

 each ear upward to the back of the neck. A broad, black 

 band crosses the back just in front of the shoulders, and 



