REPTILIA. 317 



Gymnophthalmus pleii Bocouht. 



Bocourt, Miss. sci. Mex. Reptil., 1881, p. 473, pi. 22, H, fig. 3. Boulbnger, Cat. lizards Brit. mus. 

 19, 1885, 2, p. 429. 



Garman (Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 12) records the capture of this species 

 at Martinique, the type locality, and at St. Lucia, whence G. luetkenii is supposed 

 to have come. He says, "Bocourt gives St. Lucia as the locality for G. lutkeni; 

 we failed to secure a specimen in all our collecting." 



Boulenger (Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1891, p. 353) writes: "Like Mr. Gar- 

 man I find the St. Lucia specimens to be referable to G. pleii, described by Bocourt 

 as from Martinique, and not to G. luetkenii, of the same author, from St. Lucia." 



It is thus evident that this species, G. pleii, is apparently the only one found 

 on both islands, in which case the locality for the type of the other species was 

 undoubtedly incorrect. 



Amphisbaena punctata Bell. 

 Bell, Zool. journ., 1828, 3, p. 236. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 2, p. 450, pi. 23, fig. 3. 



This little-known species is recorded only from Cuba. I succeeded in pro- 

 curing two specimens, one at San Diego de los Baiios, and the other near Herra- 

 dura. Both were turned out in ploughing. This species grows to be larger and 

 is much more light colored in life than the following. The few specimens of this 

 genus which I saw in the Museums in Havana all belonged to this species. It 

 may be confined to the region from the Province of Matanzas, west to Pinar 

 del Rio. 



Amphisbaena cubana Peters. 



Peters, Monatsb. Akad. wiss. Berlin, 1878, p. 780, pi. — , fig. 4. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 

 1885, 2, p. 446. 



Stejneger has discussed the question as to the distinctness of this species 

 under the heading of A. caeca in Porto Rico (Rept. U. S. nat. mus. for 1902, 

 1904, p. 676). There can be but little doubt of its distinctness. It is confined 

 to Cuba. 



Since the above was written I have been able to examine twenty-six speci- 

 mens obtained by following plows in the cane fields of the Soledad estate, near 

 Cienfuegos. All of these have the ocular fused with the second labial, so that 

 there can be no doubt as to the stability of this character. Boulenger was in- 

 clined to regard this condition as anomalous and to unite this species with A. 

 caeca. There is, however, no reason whatever for doing this. In the region 

 about Cienfuegos, where these specimens were found I did not find a single 



