96 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



So far this species is known from the type, which was captured sitting 

 upon a mossy stone in a small brook, at dusk on a March evening in 1900. 

 Mr. Palmer was kind enough to give a minute description of just how he found 

 the spot where this treasure was caught. A careful search at that locality 

 failed to reveal the species, and it is probably one of those curious forms which 

 make but a periodical appearance and remain hidden during long intervals. 

 Judging from what we know of its ally, Bufo ramsdeni Barbour, from the moun- 

 tains near Guantanamo, it is probable that the species is extremely local in its 

 distribution. For the benefit of those who may collect in Cuba, and have an 

 opportunity to search again at the type-locality for this species, it may be stated 

 that El Guama, with the accent strongly on the last syllable, is not a town or 

 village, as would appear from the many labels of the Palmer and Riley collec- 

 tion, and the name is not to be found on any map of Cuba which we have con- 

 sulted. El Guamd is named from a useful tree, from the inner bast of which a 

 strong rope may be readily twisted. A few miles to the north of the city of Pinar 

 del Rio, one finds a stream by this name, which increases in size and finally 

 becomes Rio Guama, which flows through the city of Pinar del Rio itself, and 

 runs southward, emptying into the Gulf of Bataban6 at Coloma. On the bank 

 of the upper reaches of the stream there is a small farm and a country store, 

 which, as is common with such properties in Cuba, bear a distinctive name. 

 This is El Guama. According to a recent rumor the finca has been abandoned, 

 and it is not unUkely that the store may move, in which case the tj-pe-locality 

 of Bufo longinasus vnW be very difficult to identify. 



3. Bufo ramsdeni Barbour. 

 Plate 1, fig. 2. 

 Ramsden's Toad. 



Diagnosis: — A small toad having no cranial ridges; first finger shorter than 

 second which is very long; toes with but a trace of web; skin smooth with 

 scattered asperities; snout conical, projecting, pointed, with the nostrils near 

 the tip; parotoids very large. 



Description: — Type. Adult 9 M. C. Z. 3,212. Cuba: Guantanamo, 

 Monte Libano, Los Hondones. C. T. Ramsden. 



Head and body depressed; snout concave along median line, projected 

 and rather pointed; canthus rostralis rounded; interorbital space much wider 



