1887.] — ' * [Carman. 



Very young ones are ashy or grayish, with brown puncticulations ; the' 

 head and posterior margins of ventrals and subcaudals are darker ; a 

 white-edged brown band passes from the nostrils, spreading to include the 

 eye, to the eighth labial ; and cliin, throat and lips are mottled with 

 brownish. 



Half-grown are less uniform, and more brown ; they have scattered 

 whito-bordered scales in the anterior half of the length, faint indications 

 of transverse dorsal bands of brown, and an indefinitely margined brown 

 baud across the head from the hinder edges of the orbits. 



BuFO MARiKUS Linn.; Schneid. 



A single quite young individual appears in the collection. Compared 

 with many others of the same size from Jamaica, it is rather more smooth 

 and of lighter color. The Jamaican examples are rouf;;hened with sharp 

 points and in general color are dark brown ; the spots on the ventral sur- 

 face are numerous and dark. On the Cayman specimen the color is ashy 

 or grayish, and the spots beneath have a faded olivaceous tint. Spots, 

 glands and warts have similar positions and shapes in both cases. 



Nothing can be said of the place whence this species came, it is so gen- 

 erally distributed among the West Indies, from Jamaica southward, and 

 along the coasts of South and Central America. 



Hyla septentrionai.is Tschudi ; Blgr. 



In very large specimens the habit is massive and much like that of the 

 toad ; the skin is glandular, and, in some, covered with large smooth 

 ■warts. On young ones the skin is quite smooth. A male, less than one- 

 fourth the size of the females, has a blackish rugosity on the inner side of 

 the first finger. 



The color varies from grayish olive to brown, irregularly marked with 

 darker on the back. Ventral surface whitish, with or without spots or 

 cloudings of dark anteriorly. Limbs with transverse bands of brown. In 

 the folds in front of the shoulder the brown takes the form of narrow ver- 

 tical lines. Behind the thighs and along the flanks there are irregular 

 small spots or reticulations of brown. On small ones there is a white band 

 on the posterior half of the upper lip, a brown one behind each eye 

 through the tympanum toward the shoulder, and a transverse band, con- 

 cave forward, across the head between the eyes. 



No diflferences are noted between these and others from Cuba. 



Mr. Richardson states that the natives reported a crocodile in the 

 swamps. This might be expected from the presence of two species on 

 Cuba, one of which appears also on Jamaica and San Domingo. In com- 

 pleting the list of the Grand Cayman reptiles it will, no doubt, be neces- 

 sary to add the names of the marine turtles. Thalassochelys cephalo, 

 Chelonia mydas, Eretmochelys imbricata, and Dermatochelys coriacm. 



