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Show 1891.] BATRACHIANS, AND FISHES FROM THE WEST INDIES. 353 II. ST. LUCIA. Collected by Mr. Ramage. 1. HEMIDACTYLUS MABOUIA, Mor. 2. THECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDA, Houtt. 3. SPH^ERODACTYLUS MICROLEPIS, R. & L. We have stated above that the male specimen from Dominica bears no other markings but a few light dots. The St. Lucia specimens, although agreeing entirely in structure with the above, differ in having a black interscapular band, which may be preceded by a pair of whitish spots ; this black band is usually edged with lighter behind. But then the Dominica specimens again differ among themselves ; some have large black or dark brown symmetrical markings or angular bands on the head and nape, and V-shaped black bands on the throat, whilst others have a uniform pale brown head and a white throat. These differences are not sexual, the head-markings only being not so dark in the females as in the males. Dark spots or cross-bands may be present on the back. This is evidently the most widely distributed of the West-Indian Sphcerodactyli, since it is now known from St. Croix (Lutken), Dominica, and St. Lucia. 4. ANOLIS ALLIGATOR, D. & B. Anolis lucice, Gar man, Bull. Essex Inst. xix. 1887, p. 34. 5. GYMNOPHTHALMUS PLEII, Bocourt. Like Mr. Garman 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. 6. MABUIA AGILIS, var. LUCICE, Garm. Mabuia lucice, Bull. Essex Inst. xix. 1887, p. 51. This form must be regarded as a variety of M, agilis. The four specimens obtained by Mr. Ramage differ from the typical form of this species in having two or three pairs of nuchals; but as Mr. Garman says in his description " one or two pairs of nuchals," it is clear the character is not constant. The black lateral band is absent, as in a specimen from Barbados. In one specimen the frontonasal is in contact with the rostral; in the three others, the internasals are in contact behind the rostral. Two specimens are males; they have 28 scales round the middle of the body, 59 and 63 from chin to vent: the two others are females, and have 30 scales round the body, 64 and 69 from chin to vent. 7. LIOPHIS FUGITIVUS, Donnd. Dromicus ornatus, Garman, Proc. A m . Philos. Soc. xxyr. 1887, p. 280. Inhabits Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Lucia. Our specimens |