104 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



7. Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus (Cope). 



Plate 13, fig. 6-8. 



Ranita; Ventorilla; Campanilla. 



Diagnosis: — A small woodland frog, having a faint dorsolateral fold and 

 perfectly smooth skin on the back. There is almost always at least a trace of 

 a light middorsal stripe, forking over the vent and passing down the back of 

 each thigh. There is a dark stripe on the tympanic region and a black spot 

 on each side near the sacral region. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 3,045. Cuba: Oriente; Jiguanl, Los Negros 

 (Sierra Maestra Mts.), March, 1913. Thomas Barbour. 



Tongue broad, oval, free and unnotched behind; vomerine teeth in two 

 long curved series a short distance behind the choanae, the series separated 

 by a very narrow median interspace, the series extend to the line of the maxil- 

 lae; nostrils near tip of snout, their distance from eye equal to its diameter; 

 upper eyelid distinctly narrower than interorbital space; tympanum round, 

 rather large, about equal to two thirds of the diameter of the orbit; fingers 

 without discs, first finger very sUghtly longer than second; toes with very small 

 scarcely discernible discs; tip of first toe not quite reaching base of second; 

 two very inconspicuous metatarsal tubercles; soles smooth; a faintly indicated 

 tarsal fold; the bent limbs being pressed along the side, knee and elbow overlap 

 sUghtly; with the adpressed hind Umb the tibiotarsal articulation extends 

 slightly beyond the tip of the snout; the hind Umbs being placed vertically 

 to the axis of the body the heels overlap considerably; skin above perfectly 

 smooth, a very fine glandular dorsolateral fold along each side; skin of thi'oat, 

 belly, and limbs smooth; belly without modified discoidal area. 



Colour (in life) : — Varying shades of slate or gray. Hind limbs lighter, 

 anterior aspects of thighs often yellowish or with a faint tinge of pink. A broad 

 dark stripe extends along the snout over the tympanic area to behind the in- 

 sertion of the fore limb. Upon each side on the lumbar or sacral region there 

 is a conspicuous black spot. A light middorsal Une which forks above the 

 vent and passes along the hinder side of each thigh is very characteristic of the 

 species and is almost invariably present. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 32 mm. 



Width of head 11 mm. 



Diameter of eye 3 mm. 



