118 Strecker — Toads from Southeastern Texas. 



species from Hot Springs, Arkansas, for comparison. E. te.vense is also 

 recorded from Rio Seco (type locality) and San Diego (Dickerson). 



Cope recorded E. cnrolinem^e from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, 

 but these records were doubtless based on specimens of tlie species now 

 under consideration. Miss Dickerson mentions the same species from 

 Hitchcock, and, unless the specimen referred to belongs to the new species, 

 E. arrolata, the record carries the range of tlie eastern species much 

 further soutli in tlie coast region of Texas than the localities represented 

 in the pre.sent lot of material would indicate. 



Description. — Size small, total length from 22 to 29 mm. Greatest 

 width of body usually less than half the length from muzzle to vent. Color 

 in alcohol (specimens comparatively fresh ) gray, greenish or light brown. 

 Markings con.eist of a few scattered spots. Under surfaces, white. In a 

 very few examples, the throat is slightly spotted with a shade of gray. 



The skin of the underside of the body is very thin, the outlines of the 

 internal organs showing through. The body is slender, skin of upper 

 surfaces very smooth. Muzzle pointed. Canthus rostralis unusually promi- 

 nent. Inner sole tubercle small. Hind limbs short. 



It (lifters from E. carolinense in smaller size, lighter colors, entirely dif- 

 ferent color pattern, unspotted nnderparts, slender body, more uniformly 

 smooth skin and nuich shorter limbs. 



Several examples from Laguna and AVaco, Texas (Baylor University 

 Collection ), at a first glance appear rough-skinned, but this is a defect in 

 tlie preservation and is caused Ijy a general shrinkage of the skin. These 

 specimens are darker than usual, but they otherwise agree with Browns- 

 ville examples in all important characters. In the general color of the 

 upper surface, specimens of E. texense vary considerably, but in only a 

 very small per cent of the material examined do the markings show any 

 indications of forming any definite pattern. The spots are small and 

 usually very widely scattered. In the majority of cases there are more 

 spots on one side than on the other. Unmarked examples are not rare. 

 In a very few examples, the markings of the hind limbs show an approach 

 to the formation of regular bands as in E. carolinense . The specimen figured 

 in Miss Dickerson's "Frog Book" (Plate LX. Fig. 5) has heavier mark- 

 ings than any specimen now in my possession. Another Brownsville ex- 

 ample has less than a dozen small scattered black spots. 



Engystoma areolata sp. nov. 



Type No. 501, Collection of J. D. Mitchell, Victoria, Texas, from 

 Guadalupe River bottom, Victoria County, Texas, January, 1909. Cotype 

 in Baylor University ^Museum (No. 40Sti). 



Description. — Size small (about equal to E. texense (iirard). Total 

 length of type, 22 mm. Body stout, more uniform in width than E. caro- 

 linense. Color (in alcohol) above, light gray, with darker markings 

 which are heaviest in the dorsal region. Style of markings might be 

 termed "marbling" on account of their irregular outlines and light col- 

 ored interspaces. Limbs heavily marked. Under surfaces, light gray with 



