110 * THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 3,117. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Libano, 

 El Peru, 1914. C. T. Ramsden. 



Tongue narrow, oval, slightly nicked behind; vomerine teeth in two short 

 groups, which are oblique and a short distance behind the choanae, not extend- 

 ing beyond the latter laterally and converging backward near the median line, 

 the interval between the groups about equal to the distance from the choanae; 

 nostrils very near tip of snout, their distance from the eye equalling its diameter; 

 upper eyelids narrower than interorbital space; tympanum rather small, about 

 one half the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye a little less than its 

 diameter; fingers with well-developed discs, first finger equalling second in 

 length; discs of fourth and fifth toes equaUing those of fingers, others slightly 

 smaller; tip of first toe reaching the base of the disc of the second; two incon- 

 spicuous metatarsal tubercles; soles smooth except for a very few undeveloped 

 tubercles; no tarsal fold; the bent limbs being pressed along the side, knee 

 and elbow overlap; hind hmb being extended along the side of the body, the 

 heel reaches the anterior border of the eye; hind limbs being placed vertically 

 to the axis of the body, the heels overlap considerably; skin above with a very 

 few scattered granules on back and sides, a very fine, scarcely perceptible mid- 

 dorsal glandular ridge; belly and posterior aspect of thighs strongly granular; 

 throat and anterior aspect of thighs smooth; belly without a modified discoidal 

 area. 



Colour (in alcohol) : — Uniform brown above, lighter beneath. 



Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 



Width of head 4 . 2 mm. 



Diameter of eye 3 . 8 nun. 



Diameter of tympanum 1.9 mm. 



Fore limb from axilla 16.5 mm. 



Hind limb from vent 45.5 mm. 



Vent to heel 24 . 5 mm. 



As Stejneger has well said in his Herpetology of Porto Rico (p. 585) the 

 variations in colour seen in this frog are simply endless. A specimen taken at 

 the Sierra de Guane in March 1915 is dark slaty above with a conspicuous 

 white middorsal line, with dark and hght spots and small blotches upon throat 

 and sides. It is therefore useless to dwell upon the colouration of a creature 

 which probably not only varies individually almost infinitely, but each indi- 

 vidual itself may also vary from time to time. 



