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the eyes was nearly black as were those on the legs. The concealed 

 portions of the thighs were suffused with a rich reddish-brown. The 

 ventral surfaces were brown spotted with white. 



"Habitat. — These tiny frogs are apparently widely spread through- 

 out the mountains, though they are not abundant. Besides the type 

 locality, they were found at 2400 feet near Paradis and at 3700 feet 

 near Polo. As a rule they were among damp leaves and stones on 

 the ground, but one was found at the base of a banana leaf." 



A paratype, A.M.N.H. No. 44631, from near Paradis, Dominican 

 Republic, taken at 2,400 feet altitude on August 25, 1932, by W. G. 

 Hassler, differs slightly from the type in the following characteristics: 

 Heels just overlapping when laid at right angles to the axis of the 

 body, reaching only to posterior corner of eye when adpressed; 

 vomerine teeth very heavy, their posterior borders nearly horizontal. 

 In addition, the second toe is considerably longer than the first, and 

 the third is longer than the fifth. The inner metatarsal tubercle is 

 heavy and oval in shape; the outer is smaller but prominent and 

 rounded. Head and body, 17 mm.; head length, 6.5 mm.; head 

 width, 6.5 mm.; eye, 2.5 mm.; tympanum, 1.5 mm.; foreleg, 10 mm.; 

 hindleg from vent, 24 mm.; vent to heel, 14 mm.; tibia, 8 mm. 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS SCHMIDTI SCHMIDTI Noble 



Figure 17 



1923. Eleutherodaclylus schmidti Noble, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 61, p. 5. — 

 Barbottr and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 264, 

 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 63, 76, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, 

 p. 93, 1935. 



1937. Eleutherodactylus lentus schmidti Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 82, No. 2, p. 99. 



Description.— An adult, F.M.N.H. No. 6910 (formerly A.M.N.H. 

 No. A. 20852), from Lo Bracita, Prov. Pacificador, Dominican Re- 

 public, collected on August 9, 1922, by Dr. G. K. Noble and R. C. 

 Noble. Tongue broad, slightly emarginate behind; vomerine teeth 

 in two heavy, slightly oblique groups, their anterior borders in contact 

 with the posterior rim of the choanae, their inner borders narrowly 

 separated from each other; head moderate, without ridges; nostril 

 much nearer tip of snout than eye, separated from the eye by a dis- 

 tance equal to the diameter of the eye; upper eyelid equal to the 

 interorbital width; tympanum about one-half the diameter of the eye, 

 separated from it by almost its own diameter; disks of fingers rela- 

 tively small, that of the tliird finger half as wide as the tympanum; 

 first finger slightly shorter than second; disks of toes larger, that of 

 the fourth toe nearly covering the tympanic membrane; first toe 

 reaching to distal border of subarticular tubercle of second toe; fifth 

 toe equal to the tliird in length; subarticular tubercles well developed; 



