116 Wrecker — Toads from Southeastern Texas. 



J. D. Mitchell of Victoria, Texas, for a series of E. texense and 

 the type specimens of a new species herein described as Engys- 

 toma areolata. 



In addition to these specimens, the writer has had access to 

 the material in the herpetological collection of Baylor Univer- 

 sity, consisting of examples of E. carolinense from Arkansas and 

 Missouri and of E. texense from several Texan localities. After 

 a critical study of the material from all of the sources above 

 mentioned, he has reached the following conclusions: 



First. That the narrow-mouthed toad usually reported from 

 Texas is not Engystoma carolinense but E. texense which is a very 

 distinct species. 



Second. That the Engystoma carolinense of Holbrook is exceed- 

 ingly rare in Texas. The only typical specimen examined was 

 from Paris, Lamar County, in the extreme northeastern section 

 of the State. 



Third. That a small form with unusually pustulate upper 

 surfaces, peculiar coloration and short hind feet, from south- 

 eastern Texas, is worthy of recognition as a distinct species 

 iEngystoma areolata. Strecker). 



Curiously enough. Dr. Stejneger had already noticed the 

 peculiar character of some specimens from Victoria and Calhoun 

 Counties, Texas, and in writing to me, gave me the benefit of 

 his data. In southeastern Texas the new species occurs in 

 localities inhabited by the widely distributed Engystoma texense, 

 but in central Texas where the latter species is the prevailing 

 or, as I am now fully satisfied, the only form of narrow- 

 mouthed toad, no examples have been found that are even an 

 approach to E. areolata. 



Engystoma carolinense Holl)rook. 



This is tlie larjicst of the tlirce forms here considered and the most 

 widely distributi'il. Exauii)los have been examined from Raleigh, North 

 Carolina; Columbus, Georgia; Milton and Little Sarasota Bay, Florida; 

 MoVjile, Alabama; St. Tammany County, Louisiana; Hot Springs, Arkan- 

 sas; Cliff Cave and Butler County, Missouri; and Paris, Texas. It has also 

 been rei)orted from .b)hnston and Wayne Counties, North Carolina ;t 

 Riceborough, (Jeorgiu; Clareoiia, Lake Jessup and Mieanopy, Florida; 

 Greenway, Arkansas; Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; New Madrid, Mis- 

 souri, and various localities in Texas; but most of the Texan localities are 

 open to (louVjt, this species probably l)eing confused with E. texense. 



+ C. S. Brimley, Journal Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, Dec. 1907, p. 159. 



