i B4X MB ^7J* pp. 777-788 5 February 1970 PROCEEDINGS 1 OF THE blOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON A NEW SPECIES OF LARGE DIPLOGLOSSUS (SAURIA: ANGUIDAE) FROM HISPANIOLA By Albert Schwartz Dept. of Biology, Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida The anguid lizards of the genus Diploglossus Wiegmann are widespread on the islands of the Greater Antilles. The number of species on each island, however, varies; Cuba has but a single species (delasagra Cocteau), and Puerto Rico hkewise has but one galliwasp (pleii Dumeril and Bibron). Jamaica and Hispaniola have a diversity of forms; the former island has (or had) six species (occiduus Shaw, barbouri Grant, crusculus Garman, duquesneiji Grant, hewardi Gray, microblepharis Underwood) and Hispaniola has five species {costatus Cope, curtissi Grant, darlingtoni Cochran, sep-soides Gray, stenurus Cope). Another species (montisserrati Underwood) is the sole representative of this genus in the Lesser Antilles where it occurs on Montserrat. In addition, D. costatus occurs on Navassa (between Hispaniola and Ja-maica ) and D. crusculus occurs on the Lesser Cayman Islands (Little Cayman and Cayman Brae). Of these species, the least known is D. occiduus. Grant (1940:109) was not convinced that D. occiduus was extinct, but Cousens (1956:1) stated that this giant galliwasp had not been collected in over 100 years. Although D. occiduus had in early times been reported to live in swamps and to eat fish , and fruit ( and thus in its habits and habitats it may have been/^ less conspicuous than other of its Jamaican congeners), it^ seems highly unlikely that the species still persists in JamaicaQ I know of only three specimens in American collections; tO. have examined these Uzards in the collection of the Museurii^ of Zoology at the University of Michigan and the Museum\ " 60— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 82, 1970 (777) r*-. ">\ en ^y w '* 03 < ^—4 X IDi CO ^y LU ^/
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