NO. 2205. CUBAN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES— STEJNEGEli. 



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AMPHIBIA. 

 SALIENTIA. 



BUFO LONGINASUS Stejneger. 



This diminutive and beautiful toad was the most important 

 discovery of the Palmer and Riley expedition. A single specimen 

 was captured by Mr. Palmer at dusk on March 9, 1900. It was 

 sitting on a rock in a mountain stream near El Guam^, Pinar del Rio, 

 and no other specimen was seen. Doctor Barbour, who searched for 

 it at the same place some years later without rediscovering it, has 

 suggested that its habits, as indicated by the extensively webbed 

 hind feet, may be quite aquatic, which may account for it being so 

 difficult to find. It was described in the Proceedings of the United 

 States National Museum.^ 



BUFO PELTOCEPHALUS Tschudl. 



Figs. 1 to 2. 



Judging from the number brought home by Palmer and Riley, this 

 large toad must be quite common. Numerous specimens were 

 collected in July at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, and others at El Guama, 

 Pinar del Rio, in March, and at Guanajay in May. Palmer, in 1902, 

 sent in additional specimens from El Cobre, captured in Februaiy. 



Two views are given of the head of a specimen from the Isle of 

 Pines. I can discover no difference between the toads from this 

 island and the main island of Cuba. 



Figs. 3-7.— Eleutheeodactylus RicoEDn. 3 X nat. size. No. 27415, U.S.N.M. Pinar del Rio. 

 ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RICORDII DumSril and Bibron. 



Figs. 3 to 7. 



Only two specimens were secured — one adult. No. 27414, from 

 El Guama, and a younger one. No. 27415, from Pinar del Rio, both 

 in March, 1900. 



Although differing somewhat, the two specimens apparently be- 

 long to the same species. 



1 Vol. 28, June 24, 1915, p. 765, flgs, 1-6. 



