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space between them less than their diameter; tongue small, oval, 

 very slightly nicked behind; skin rugose above, without glandular 

 folds; belly and lower side of thighs uniformly granular; a very faint 

 median dorsal ridge from end of snout to anus; a subgular vocal sac. 

 "Dorsum light brown with more or less longitudinal darker mark- 

 ings; a broad dark band from eye to eye; venter grayish yellow; a 

 light yellow spot on the anterior proximal part of the thigh; a similar 

 spot on the distal posterior half, and the inner face of the tibia similarly 

 colored; a line of the dark dorsal color extends along the upper side 



Figure 23. — Eleutherodactylus montanus: Specimen from the mountains of the Cibao, 

 Azua Province, Dominican Republic (A.M.N.H. No. 6435, paratype). Twice natural 

 size. Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. 



of the thigh, representing the exposed part when the legs are folded; 

 concealed parts of arms also light colored. 



"Length, 24 mm.; head, 9 mm. long, 10 mm. broad; leg, 34 mm.; 

 arm, 15 mm. 



"Comparison of paratypes. — Four paratypes, one large female and 

 three smaller specimens, agreeing closely with the description of the 

 type. The female is somewhat larger, total length, 28 mm.; leg, 

 43 mm.; arm, 18 mm. 



"Collected in the mountainous interior of the Province of Azua, 

 Santo Domingo, by R. H. Beck, January to June 1917." 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS AURICULATUS WETMOREI Cochran 



Figure 24 



1924. Eleutherodactylus montanus Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, 



p. 2 (not of Schmidt). 

 1932. Eleutherodactylus %v.etmorei Cochran, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 45, 



p. 191. — Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 92, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 92, No. 2, p. 98, 1937. 



