BREVIORA Miaseiuioi of Comparative Zoology Cambridge, Mass. 31 March, 1971 Number 371 A NEW SPECIES OF BROMELIAD-INHABITING GALLIWASP (SAURIA: ANGUIDAE) FROM JAMAICA Albert Schwartz^ Abstract. A new species of anguid lizard, Diploglossus fowleri, is described from two specimens collected from bromeliads at the northern edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country. The affinities of the new species are with D. hewardi and D. diiqiiesneyi; both D. fowleri and D. duquesneyi appear to be geographic or ecological isolates of the widespread D. hewardi. The Antillean islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola have excep-tionally large numbers of species of the anguid lizard genus Diploglossus Wiegmann. The latter island has six extant species, whereas Jamaica likewise had six species of which one {occiduus Shaw) is presently considered extinct. Cousens (1956) summar-ized the then-known Jamaican galliwasps and regarded cnisculus Carman, harbour i Grant, hewardi Gray, and duquesneyi Grant as valid species. Since that time, D. microblepharis Underwood has been named from a single specimen from the northeastern Jamaican coast. Cousens (1956), followmg Grant (1940b), sep-arated the four forms then recognized into two major groups: one group {crusculus, barbouri) with short legs and the other {hewardi, duquesneyi) with long legs. Schwartz (1970), in dis-cussing D. occiduus, suggested that the species crusculus-hewardi-barbouri-occiduus might represent a phylogenetic series, despite the interposition in this sequence of both long-and short-limbed species. D. microblepharis stands alone; its relationships are with the Puerto Rican D. pleei Dumeril and Bibron and the Cuban D. delasagra Cocteau. In the summer of 1961, while cutting bromeliads in the decid-uous forest at the northern edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country, 1 Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida 33167
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