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genus. Individuals that he considers to belong here have been collected on St. 

 Lucia, St. Croix, and Dominica. I do not know the species from autopsy. 



Sphaerodactylus pictus Gabman. 

 Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 20. 



This species, which to judge by descriptions is well worthy of being con- 

 sidered separate from its Lesser Antillean neighbours, S. fantasticus, S. copii, S. 

 vincenti, and S. microlepis, is represented in the collection by the types only 

 (M. C. Z., No. 6,071), of which there are four, from the island of St. Kitts or St. 



Christopher. 



Sphaerodactylus vincenti Boulenger. 



Boulenger, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1891, p. 354. 



No specimens of this apparently perfectly valid species have come under my 

 observation. So far as known it is confined to St. Vincent. 



Sphaerodactylus melanospilus Bocourt. 

 Bocourt, Miss. sci. Mex. Reptil., 1873, p. 44. 



This species, the type locality of which is St. Lucia, is not represented in the 

 collection. 



Sphaerodactylus richardsonii Gray. 



Gray, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1845, p. 168. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 227, pi. 18, 

 fig. 6. Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 290. 



This, the finest and most conspicuous member of the genus, is confined to 



Jamaica, where it seems to be very rare. Gosse (Naturalists' sojourn in Jamaica, 



1851, p. 254) met with only a single example, that near Montego Bay in the 



western part of the island; while those taken by the writer were caught near 



Kingston. They came from the palm-leaf thatch of old roofs. During the 



winter of 1911-1912 Dr. H. L. Clark of the Museum staff found it again at 



Montego Bay. 



Sphaerodactylus picturatus Garman. 



Garman, Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 19. 



This species, which is very closely related to S. anthracinus Cope, of Mexico, 

 is represented in the Museum by the type series, comprising three specimens 

 (M. C. Z., No. 3,342) from western Haiti, collected by Dr. D. F. Weinland. 



A comparison of these examples with Boulenger's description (Cat. lizards 

 Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 225) of what he calls S. anthracinus Cope, based on a 

 specimen from San Domingo, shows that they are beyond doubt identical. 

 Turning, however, to Cope's original description (Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 



