Vol. 78, pp. 39-48 21 July 1965 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF THE ANGUID LIZARD WETMORENA FROM HISPANIOLA -a^^'^ By Albert Schwabtz The island of Hispaniola is inhabited by three genera of anguid lizards: Diploglossus Wiegmann, which is widespread in both Haiti and the Repiiblica Dominicana; Sauresia Gray, which has a similar distribution but which has recently been regarded as doubtfully separable from Diploglossus by Under-wood (1959:11), and Wetmorena Cochran. The latter genus is monotypic, and has heretofore been known only from the eastern portion of the Massif de la Selle in Haiti; Cochran (1941:262) mentioned specimens from the Mont des Agents Commissaires, near La Visite, Mont Cabaio, and Mont de la Selle, from west to east. Since the Massif de la Selle grades imperceptibly into the Dominican Sierra de Baoruco, without any major geographic feature to divide the two ranges, it was considered not improbable that Wetmorena occurred also in the latter range. In fact, prior to Dr. Cochran's herpetology of Hispaniola, at least one Dominican specimen of Wetmorena had been collected by W. G. Hassler at Polo in 1932. In the summer of 1963, Patricia A. Heinlein, David C. Leber, Ronald F. Klinikowski, Richard Thomas and I visited the Sierra de Baoruco, and a series of Wetmorena was taken at moderate elevations in these mountains. Previously, in the summer of 1962, Dennis R. Paulson, Miss Heinlein, and Messrs. Leber and Klinikowski visited the area called the Foret des Pins in the extreme eastern edge of the Massif de la Selle, and there secured a large series of these Hzards. When these two series are compared with one another, and addi-tionally compared with material from more eastern La Selle locaHties it is obvious that three distinct populations of Wetmorena are involved. The present large series of Wet-morena would not have been collected without the capable 4— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 78, 1965 (39)
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