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in it on each side there are two to three large, white 

 spots ; a similar band with spots crosses the middle of the 

 body, and on each side of this band there is another of 

 like pattern but lighter color. Backward on the tail the 

 bands are less regular. On the young the four bands on 

 the body are black. The limbs, lower surface of the 

 tail, chin and cheeks are spotted with brown. The veu- 

 trals are lighter, puncticulate with dark. On some in the 

 brownish spaces between the dark bands light scales al- 

 ternate with darker ones. 



Possibly this species may prove identical with the 

 /Sphcerodactylus anthracinus of Boulenger, 1885, from 

 San Domingo ; it appears, however, to be quite distinct 

 from the S. anthracinus of Cope, 1861, from Mexico. 

 It is most closely allied to the 8. fantasticus of Dumeril 

 and Bibron from Martinique and to the 8. pictus from St. 

 Kitts. Our specimens were obtained in western Hayti. 



SPHCERODACTYLUS PICTUS sp. n. 



Snout blunt, not as long as the distance from the eye 

 to the ear opening, less than one and a half times the di- 

 ameter of the orbit. Rostral large, with a median cleft 

 above. Nostril surrounded by the rostral, first labial, 

 nasal and an interuasal. Three to four labials ; lower la- 

 bials three to four, anterior long. Mental large, truncate 

 posteriorly. A small, spine-like scale on the upper eye- 

 lid. Head covered with granular keeled scales, larger 

 toward the snout. Scales of the body moderate, keeled 

 on back and flanks ; those of the belly larger. A couple 

 of rows of granules separate the keeled scales above the 

 vertebrae. 



Greyish with three or four rows of brown spots on each 

 side. On the snout there is a brown band from each eye 



