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closely placed liu;htisli spots. Skin of back areolated, even pustular on the 

 posterior part. Pustules very uniformly distributed. Muzzle shorter 

 than in examples of E. carolinense and E. iexense of the same size. Can- 

 thus rostralis not prominent. Hind limbs short. Hind foot unusually 

 sliort. Inner sole tubercle large. 



Compared with E. carolinense it differs in its smaller size, in the gen- 

 erally more regular outline of the body as viewed from above, in the 

 shortness of the hind leg and foot and in the remarkably pustular appear- 

 ance of the upjier surface of the body. The inner sole tubercle is much 

 larger than in examples of E. carolinense of the same size. 



It resembles E. texense in size and in the shortness of the hind limbs 

 but in no other characteristic. 



Two specimens of Engystoma areoJata collected with the type (No. 

 501a, Mitchell Collection, and No. 4086, Baylor University Collection) are 

 similar in every respect excepting in color. One of these specimens has 

 much the same color pattern but the markings are heavier and the ground 

 color lighter. The other is rather dark and the back and upper surfaces 

 of the limbs are marked with closely placed blotches of brownish olive. 

 In the type a dark line extends along the muzzle from orbit to orbit and 

 there is a small dark Ijroad V-shaped mark between the orbits. No dark 

 line along the sides as in carolinense. The data accompanying these 

 specimens is as follows: 



"Found under logs associated with examples of Engystoma texense, 

 Bufo vaUiceps, Hyla cinerea, Hi/la squirella, Raua pipiens, Anolis caroli- 

 nensis, Eumeces quinquelineatus, Leiolepisma laterale, Ancistrodon con- 

 tortrix, numerous species of beetles, ants and other insects." (J. D. 

 Mitchell.) 



Dr. Stejneger has given me the following notes on Texas specimens 

 examined by him some years ago. These notes doubtless refer to E. 

 areolata : 



"No. 35,942 (U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll.) Victoria, Texas, J. D. Mitchell, 

 collected in 1897. Skin of back areolated. 



" Four specimens (Victoria High School Collection, No. 52), collected 

 by ^Mitchell under timber in Spring Marsh, Well Camp, Alligator Head, 

 Calhoun County, Texas, March, 1902, also have the back areolated, the 

 posterior part even pustular. Metatarsal tubercle rather large and hind 

 feet short." 



Notes on the Habits of the Narrow-Mouthed Toads. 



On account of their strictly nocturnal habits, very little is known of the 

 life histories of these diminutive toads, but the following data may shed 

 some light on their habitat relations : 



Engystoma carolinense. — Dr. E. Loennberg* states that in Florida he 

 "found this peculiar little animal under old logs, dry palm leaves and 

 such things near lakes and in moist places in Orange County, for instance, 

 * Proc. U. S. National Museum, 1894, Vol. 17, page 338. 



