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9. Elexjtherodactylus plicatus Barbour. 



Plate 6, fig. 1. 



Ventorilla or Ranita. 



Diagnosis: — A small terrestrial frog with the dorsal surface strongly pli- 

 cate or rugose; its colour is uniform olive-brown above with the lower surfaces 

 and especially the thighs pink. 



Description: — Type. Adult M. C. Z. 3,056. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte 

 Libano, La Union, 23 March, 1913. C. T. Ramsden. 



Tongue medium, oval, entire behind; vomerine teeth in two long series 

 which converge posteriorly and almost meet at median line, extending laterally 

 to but very little beyond the choanae which are situated nearer the median line 

 than in other species; head broad and rounded; snout only sUghtly declivous; 

 nostril much nearer the tip of the snout than eye; upper eyelids slightly less 

 wide than interorbital space; tympanum medium size and round, about one 

 half the diameter of the eye; its distance from the latter equal to its own diam- 

 eter; fingers with exceedingly small discs, the first and second fingers much 

 shorter than second; subarticular tubercles well developed; no marked plantar 

 tubercles; a rather small inner and outer metatarsal tubercle; a feebly developed 

 tarsal fold which in the type and paratype may be due to shrinkage; hind limb 

 being bent forward along the body the heel reaches well beyond the tip of snout, 

 bent vertically to the axis of the body the heels overlap considerably; skin 

 above extremely rugose and plicate; throat, chest, and anterior aspect of thighs 

 perfectly smooth, belly and posterior femoral aspects finely granular. 



Colour (in fresh specimen) : — Almost uniform dark oUve-brown above, 

 the lower surfaces pinkish almost roseate ; the fronts of the thighs a fine brilliant 

 pink, throat with a few dark dots. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 22 mm. 



Width of head 10 mm. 



Diameter of eye 3 mm. 



Diameter of tympanum 1 . 5 mm. 



Fore limb from axilla 16 mm. 



Hind limb from vent 41 mm. 



Vent to heel 27 mm. 



A second specimen (M. C. Z. 3,119) shows all the characters of the type 

 except that the brown of the upper surface is somewhat variegated or marbled 



