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ELEUTHERODACTYLUS INTERMEDIUS. new species 



Figure 22 



Diagnosis. — Allied to Eleutherodactylus audanti Cochran and to 

 E. minutus Noble, differing from the former in its heavier vomerine 

 teeth and from the latter in its shorter snout, shorter hindleg, and 

 granular venter. 



Type— An adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 107566, from Loma Rucilla 

 of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic, 8,000 to 10,000 feet 

 altitude, June 1938, Dr. P. J. Darlington. Paratypes, U.S.N.M. 

 Nos. 107567-107571, same data, and Nos. 107572-107574 from the 

 same mountain at 4,000 to 7,000 feet; U.S.N.M. No. 107577-107585 

 from Valle Nuevo, southeast of Constanza at 6,000 to 8,000 feet, 



Figure 22. — Eleutherodactylus intermedius: a, Dorsum; b, venter; c, profile of head; d, inside 

 of mouth; e, underside of hand;/, underside of foot. U.S.N.M. No. 107566, type from 

 Loma Rucilla and mountains north, Dominican Republic, a-d, X l'/j; e, /, X 3. 



August 1938, Dr. P. J. Darlington. Additional specimens from both 

 localities are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Nos. 23469- 

 23474, 23489-23494 from Loma Rucilla, and Nos. 23495-23500 from 

 Valle Nuevo. 



Description oj the type. — Vomerine teeth in two heavy, straight, 

 nearly horizontal series slightly separated medially and situated well 

 behind and between the choanae; tongue elongate, with the free 

 border conspicuously lobed; snout short, sloping forward at the tip, 

 depressed; can thus rostralis sharp, prominent, the loreal region con- 

 cave; nostrils twice as far from eye as from end of snout; tympanum 

 small, round, its greatest diameter three-fifths that of eye, and 

 separated from eye by about two-thirds its own diameter; inter- 

 orbital space one and one-half times the width of upper eyelid; disks 

 of fingers and toes small but distinct, about one-third the diameter 



