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somewhat truncate in profile, not shovel-shaped; femur very short; 

 tibiotarsal articulation usually not reaching eye. Young specimens 

 pink (or white in preservative) spotted very unsymmetrically with 

 brown ; older specimens increasingly darker and more evenly colored ; 

 adults dark drab-gray, usually with a brown interorbital bar, always 

 with a dark triangular postanal mark extending onto the lower part 

 of the femur. 



Original description. — "An adult, M.C.Z. 19704, from Peak La 

 Selle collected by Andre Audant. Tongue moderately broad, very 

 slightly emarginate behind; vomerine teeth in two very short, 

 straight, widely separated patches between and well behind the 

 choanae, their outer ends not extending as far as the inner borders of 



Figure 21. — Eleutherodactylus audanti: a, Dorsal view; b, side of head; c, underside of hind- 

 foot; d, underside of forefoot; e, inside of mouth. M.C.Z. No. 19704, type, from Peak 

 La Selle, Haiti. Twice natural size. 



the choanae; head moderate, without ridges, its greatest width equal 

 to distance from end of snout to occiput; no subgular pouch evident, 

 although a distinct fold occurs across the chest between the forelimbs; 

 nostril much nearer snout than eye, its distance from eye slightly less 

 than the diameter of the latter; upper eyelid much narrower than inter- 

 orbital space; tympanum equal to one-third the diameter of the eye, 

 its distance from the eye somewhat less than its own diameter; disks 

 of fingers moderate in size, that of the third finger covering about 

 two-thirds the tympanic area; first finger much shorter than second; 

 inner toes free, outer ones with a slight rudiment of a web; disks of 

 toes about equal in size to those of the fingers; first toe reaching almost 

 to base of disk of second toe; subarticular tubercles well developed; 

 two prominent metatarsal tubercles; no plantar tubercles; no tarsal 



