A possible second specimen which was collected by Rollo Beck in 1917 was instead identified as a Tiburon curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus melanochlorus) by herpetologist Richard Thomas in 1966.

Leiocephalus eremitus was endemic to Navassa Island.

[1] The size of the holotype is given as 64 mm (2+1⁄2 in) snout–vent length (SVL).

Throat, breast, belly and the extremities are brown with pale-tipped scales.

Navassa has xeric forest vegetation, but nothing specific is known about biology of this species.