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Colour (in fresh specimen) : — Brown, with many Ughter cross-streaks on 

 nape and body. Belly white, throat and lower side of legs dusky brown. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 16.5mm. 



Width of head 7 mm. 



Diameter of eye 2 mm. 



Diameter of tjinpanum 1 . 6 mm. 



Fore limb from axilla 11 mm. 



Hind limb from vent 25 mm. 



Vent to heel 14 nmi. 



Gundlach does not mention exactly whence the tjT)es came but stating 

 that the species Uves in the woods, is rarely found in cultivated regions or near 

 towns and that its voice is that of a tiny bell which while faint is so penetrating 

 that it may be heard a great distance. The voice it has in conmion vnth. the 

 other terrestrial Cuban Eleutherodactyli. 



During January, 1917, the senior author took twenty-five young examples 

 which undoubtedly belong to this species, in the decaying vegetable trash of 

 an "hoyo" in the Sierra at Luis Lazo, which had many years ago been planted 

 to coffee. The httle frogs were excessively active and reminded one of nothing 

 so much as crickets. Their colouration was uniform and pecuUar in consisting 

 of a dark brown upper siu"face crossed by eight or ten narrow transverse bands 

 of hghter brown, giving a decidedly zebra-like effect. The lower side of the 

 belly was white but the throat and lower siu-faces of legs were dusky brown. 



Curiously enough in all om* excursions we had never previously taken this 

 frog. A careful reexamination of the series from Soledad recorded as E. varians 

 (Mem. M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 245) makes it quite clear that they were really 

 the yoimg of E. ricordii. Stejneger (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1917, 53, p. 263) shows 

 that Palmer and Riley took it at Mariel, San Diego de los Banos, and at El 

 Guama. 



11. Eleutherodactylus atjriculattjs (Cope). 



Plate 6, fig. 2, 3. 



Ranita de los Curujeyes. 



Diagnosis: — A small frog with granular belly, vomerine teeth in two short 

 straight series not extending laterally beyond the choanae, nostrils very near 

 tip of snout and well-developed discs on fingers and toes. 



