POPE: WEST INDIAN ANURA IN BERMUDA. 129 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS LUTEOLUS GOSSE. 



In June, 1916, Mr. J. M. Godet sent to the Station several specimens 

 of an Eleutherodactylus new to Bermuda. These frogs had been 

 caught and brought in alive by Mr. Godet's cat. The cat certainly 

 qualified as a good collector, for in the course of the summer he brought 

 in about twenty-five specimens. Later in the season Mr. Godet was 

 having a stone wall near his residence removed and his workmen came 

 across many of these little frogs hiding under stones. 



The new frog (Plate 1, fig. l), which Dr. Thomas Harbour has 

 kindly identified for me as Eleutherodactylus luteolus, hitherto found 

 only in Jamaica, appears to be a little larger than E. johnstonei, yet 

 the average female measures only 28 mm. The difference is in girth of 

 body rather than in length, for it is not quite so slender. Besides this, 

 the males are larger in proportion and do not seem to outnumber the 

 females as much as in E. johnstonei. In color the creature is pale 

 gray, changeable to dark gray. The under parts are paler and the 

 skin there is granular. Indistinct barring shows on arms and legs. 

 There is a dark streak, edged anteriorly with white, between the eyes 

 and rather faint dark markings on the back. These are situated 

 between the armpits and at the sacral hump, corresponding to the 

 more distinct markings seen in E. johnstonei. A black line extends 

 from snout to eye, and the ventral two thirds of the iris is dark. 

 Behind the eye the line continues along the side and is edged ven- 

 trally with black blotches to a point just back of the armpit. In 

 about half the specimens that I handled there was a distinct, light 

 vertebral line running back from the snout to the vent, where it 

 bifurcates and extends along the posterior side of the thighs. 



Nothing definite is known about the introduction of this species. 

 Mr. Godet tells me that its peculiar call has been heard in Paget for 

 at least ten years. It seems to be most abundant near his home in 

 Paget about opposite Isle of White, but it does not occur west of 

 Paget. I have heard a few, and collected one, at Pembroke Cross- 

 roads but have not heard them further east. 



The call is very hard to describe. It is a soft, chuckling note, almost 

 a trill. It is not very loud and seems to require little effort. The 

 throat pouch is slightly expanded, but the body does not become 

 inflated as in E. johnstonei. 



In going from Hamilton to Paget one evening I heard both E. 

 luteolus and E. johnstonei near the city, but as I went further out the 



