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tarsal articulation barely reaching shoulder when legs are adpressed; 

 skin of the back almost smooth anteriorly, but with numerous glands 

 and pustules on the flanks, on the sacrum, and on the upper surfaces 

 of the legs; a narrow glandular lateral fold originating behind the eye, 

 continuing over the ear and disappearing on the sides midway to the 

 groin; skin smooth on chin and chest, coarsely granular on abdomen, 

 finely granular on lower surface of thighs; traces of an external vocal 

 sac; ventral disk very indistinctly marked. 



Dimensions: Tip of snout to vent, 33 mm.; tip of snout to posterior 

 edge of tympanum, 12 mm.; greatest width of head, 14 mm.; foreleg 

 from axilla, 16 mm.; hindleg from vent to heel, 22 mm.; hindleg from 

 vent to tip of fourth toe, 38 mm. 



Color (in alcohol): Dorsal surface seal brown, the limbs drab with 

 very definite dark cross bands; a very narrow, crooked, pale dorsal 

 line from between the eyes to the vent where it divides and continues 

 on the posterior femur; ventral surface dark drab, very heavily mottled 

 with coarse white spots, which become finer and farther apart on the 

 chin, lips, and lower surfaces of the limbs. 



Paratypes.— Topotypes (M.C.Z. Nos. 19853-19857 and U.S.N.M. 

 Nos. 95423-95427), including young. 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS VENTRILINEATUS (Shreve) 



Figure 10 



1936. Leptodactylus ventrilineatus Shreve, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 15, 

 p. 98. 



Original description. — "Type, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 no. 19,857, an adult female, from Mt. La Hotte, 5,000 ft. to summit, 

 Haiti, collected by P. J. Darlington in October 1934. 



"Paratypes: Museum of Comparative Zoology, nos. 19,858-19,863, 

 with the same data and history as the type. 



"Diagnosis. — Probably most closely related to Leptodactylus dar- 

 lingtoni, 3 from which it differs in the shape and position of the vomerine 

 teeth, in its less swollen tips of the digits, and in the ventral coloration. 

 Also this form does not seem to grow as large as darlingtoni. 



"Description. — Tongue suboval, not nicked behind; vomerine teeth 

 in two very short, oval, oblique groups behind and between the outer 

 edges of the choanae; snout obtuse, longer than the diameter of the 

 eye; canthus rostralis rather rounded, fairly distinct; loreal region 

 slightly concave and decidedly oblique; nostril nearer tip of snout 

 than eye; interorbital space broader than upper eyelid; tympanum 

 distinct, about two thirds the diameter of the eye; tips of digits very 

 feebly swollen; length of first finger equal to that of second, or first 

 very slightly longer than second; first toe decidedly shorter than second; 



3 See Eleutherodactylus jugans Cochran, page 33. 



