B.I. Crother, Preface.G.R. Zug, Foreword.E.E. Williams, Over 300 Years of Collecting in the Caribbean.A.R. Ruibal and R.Ruibal, A Review of Cuban Herpetology.R.I. Crombie, Jamaica.R. Powell, J.A. Ottenwalder, and S.J. Inchaustegui, The Hispaniolan Herpetofauna: Diversity, Endemism, and Histical Perspectives, with Comments on Navassa Island.R. Thomas, The Puerto Rico Area.E.J. Censky and H. Kaiser, The Lesser Antillean Fauna.R.W. Henderson and R. Powell, West Indian Herpetoecology.B.I. Crother, Evolutionary Relationships.G.K. Pregill and B.I. Crother, Ecological and Historical Biogeography.W.E. Duellman, The West Indies and Middle America--Contrasting Origins and Diversity.Plates.References.Index.