108 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



with lighter and darker; another in the private collection of the junior author 

 is similar. 



Eleutherodadylus plicatus is only known from a small series all secured 

 upon Monte Libano near Guantanamo; taken under stones and debris together 

 with E. dvmidiatus, E. ricordii, and Phyllobaies limbatus along brooks in deep 

 woods, at La Union, where the road from San Fernando, Yateras, running 

 west meets the highway from Guantanamo to Sagua de Tanamo ; it has never 

 been found elsewhere. In its general appearance it recalls E. cuneatus, but 

 differs strikingly from that species in having a pecuUarly broad, rounded head 

 and in a remarkably rugose dorsum. 



10. Eleutherodactylus VAEiANS (Gundlach & Peters). 



Plate 13, fig. 12-14. 



Ranita; Ventorilla; Campanula. 



Diagnosis: — A very small terrestrial frog, with no digital dilations and 

 having a coarsely granular belly. The tympanum is large, about two thirds as 

 large as the eye, the rows of teeth on the palate being rather short, and straight 

 but directed so as to converge shghtly posteriorly. 



Description: — Young M. C. Z. 3,721. Cuba: Valley of Luis Lazo, Janu- 

 ary, 1917. Thomas Barbour. 



Tongue, oval, narrow and entire behind; vomerine teeth in two rather 

 short, straight series, the outer extremity of each series is some little distance 

 behind but not outside (laterad) the corresponding choana, the series slants 

 slightly posteriorly and converges with its fellow, they are separated by a con- 

 siderable interspace; head broad and rounded, wider than the body; snout 

 flat, scarcely declivous; interorbital space distinctly wider than an upper eye- 

 lid; tympanum large, round, about two thirds the diameter of the eye, its 

 distance from the eye distinctly less than its own diameter; discs on fingers 

 not developed, first finger not quite as long as second; first toe much shorter 

 than second; subarticular tubercles poorly developed, a number of small scat- 

 tered plantar tubercles; a very feeble inner and outer metatarsal tubercle; no 

 tarsal fold; the hind limb being carried forward along the body the tibiotarsal 

 articulation reaches the anterior border of the eye, bent vertically to the axis 

 of the body the heels meet; skin above coarsely granular; belly and hinder 

 aspect of thighs coarsely granular; a faintly mdicated ventral discoidal fold. 



