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tibiotarsal articulation barely reaching shoulder when legs are ad- 

 pressed; ventral surface sepia, coarsely reticulated with white; 

 numerous white dots on throat, chest, and lower surfaces of limbs. 



Type. — M.C.Z. No. 19852, an adult from near La Visite, La Selle 

 Range, Haiti, altitude between 5,000 and 7,000 feet, collected Septem- 

 ber 16 to 23, 1934, by P. J. Darlington. 



Description of the type. — Vomerine teeth in two exceedingly heavy, 

 slightly curved series, almost meeting in the center behind the 

 choanae and extending laterally beyond the choanae about one-third 

 their own length; tongue large, ovoidal, not nicked behind; snout 



Figure 9. — Eleutherodactylus jugans: a, Dorsum; b, venter; c, profile of head; d, inside of 

 mouth; e, underside of hand;/, underside of foot. U.S.N.M. No. 95425, paratype, from 

 near La Visite, Haiti. One and one-half times natural size. 



short, projecting at the tip, depressed, without a distinctly sharp edge; 

 canthus rostralis sharp, prominent, the loreal region distinctly con- 

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

 higher than long, its greatest diameter equaling width of eye; inter- 

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

 finger shorter than second, which is slightly shorter than fourth; toes 

 very slightly webbed at base, third much longer than fifth; sub- 

 articular tubercles well developed; numerous smaller tubercles in 

 series on the sole; two metatarsal tubercles, the inner almost as long as 

 the inner toe; no tarsal fold; heels just touching when hind limbs are 

 folded at right angles to axis of body; hindlegs extremely short, tibio- 



