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Diameter of tympanum 2 mm. 



Fore leg from axilla 15 mm. 



Hind leg from vent 46 mm. 



Vent to heel 5.5 mm. 



This beautiful little frog is usually found in damp woodlands. It was 

 first described from eastern Cuba (doubtless Monte Verde) having been col- 

 lected by Charles Wright. We beheve that it is confined to the Province of 

 Oriente, for it has been found at Monte Libano and Yateras near Guantanamo 

 (Ramsden) at Cayo del Rey near Alto Cedro (Torre) and at several locahties 

 in the Sierra Maestra (Barboiu"). As we have indicated, this species until 

 recently appeared rare and is usually only found under stones or decaying 

 vegetable matter along the banks of some mountain stream. Recent observa- 

 tions of the junior author (Ramsden) show that this frog is really not rare in the 

 mountain ranges to the north of Guantanamo. Indeed one finds it in abun- 

 dance and in all sizes, at a place called San Felipe on Monte Toro in deep forest 

 when the "Palma Juta" grows. Here the pahn is called "Pakna juta" and the 

 places where it grows abundantly are known locally as "Jutales." 



8. Eleutherodactylus cuneatus (Cope). 



Plate 13, fig. 9-11. 



Ranita. 



Diagnosis: — A beautiful little frog usually gray with a white lateral stripe, 

 dark spots in the groin and bright pink thighs. The skin of the belly is modified 

 into a disc-like organ of adhesion. There is a prominent glandular dorsolateral 

 fold and the skin of the back is rough. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 3,882. Cuba: Oriente; La Patana near 

 Baracoa. V. J. Rodriguez. 



Tongue rather broad, oval, very shghtly nicked behind; vomerine teeth 

 in two long curved series posterior but adjacent to the choanae, extending later- 

 ally to above the maxillae and separated mesially by a very narrow interspace; 

 nostril almost at tip of snout, its distance from the eye about equalling its 

 diameter; upper eyeUd much narrower than interorbital space, tympanum 

 rather large, round, with a prominent glandular supratympanic fold, its diame- 

 ter rather less than two thirds the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye 



