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ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RUTHAE Noble 



Figure 8 



1923. Eleutherodactylus ruthae Noble, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 61, p. 6. — Cochran, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 2, 1924.— Barbour and Loveridge, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 263, 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, 

 vol. 11, No. 4, p. 76, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 93, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 82, No. 2, p. 100, 1937. 



Description. — U.S.N. M. No. 65715, an adult male from Samana 

 and Laguna, Dominican Republic, collected in March 1923 by Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott. Tongue moderate in width, emarginate behind; 

 vomerine teeth in two wide, straight patches a considerable distance 

 behind the widely separated choanae, their outer borders reaching 

 about to a line drawn posteriorly from the centers of the choanae, 



Figure 8. — Eleutherodactylus ruthae: a, Dorsal view; b, inside of mouth; c, underside of 

 hindfoot; d, underside of forefoot; e, side of head. U.S.N. M. No. 65715, from Samana 

 and Laguna, Dominican Republic. Natural size. 



their inner borders well separated on the median line ; head moderate, 

 without ridges; snout pointed, terminating in a very prominent, 

 heavy, shovellike ridge, which at its greatest width is one-half the 

 diameter of the eye; nostril much nearer end of snout than eye, its 

 distance from the eye equaling diameter of latter; upper eyelid about 

 three-fourths the interorbital width; can thus rostralis distinctly 

 marked, can thai region concave; tympanum equal to four-fifths the 

 diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye about one-fourth its own 

 diameter; disks of fingers and toes small, disk of third finger about 

 one-third the diameter of the tympanum, of fourth toe smaller yet; 

 first finger as long as second ; toes and fingers with only a vestigial web ; 

 first toe moderately long, reacliing nearly to the disk of second toe; 

 fifth toe considerably longer than third; subarticular tubercles well 

 developed; two metatarsal tubercles, the outer very weak and scarcely 

 perceptible, the inner elongate and fairly prominent; a few small 



