THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 27 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS INOPTATUS (Barbour) 



Figure 7 



1914. Leptodactylus inoptatus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, 

 p. 252 (type locality, Diquini, Haiti; collector, W. M. Mann; type in Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., No. 3087).— Nieden, Das Tierreich, Anura I, p. 475, 1923. — 

 Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 293, 

 1929. 



1921. Eleutherodaclylus inoptatus Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, 

 art, 2, p. 9.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 2, 1924; 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928. — Barbour, Reptiles and 

 amphibians, p. 96, 1926; 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.— Noble, 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 30, pp. 89, 90, fig. 19 (larva), 1927. 



Description. — U.S.N. M. No. 65024, an adult from Laguna, Samana 

 Peninsula, Dominican Republic, collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in 

 May 1922. Tongue broad, faintly emarginate behind; vomerine 

 teeth in two very oblique groups some distance behind the choanae, 

 the outer portion of each group short and not extending beyond the 

 outer borders of the choanae, the inner portion rather long and dis- 

 tinctly though narrowly separated from its fellow; head relatively 

 large; nostril much nearer to the tip of snout than to the eye, separated 

 from the eye by a distance a little greater than the diameter of the eye ; 

 upper eyelid equal to the interorbital width; a short but heavy spine 

 near the posterior border of the upper eyelid; tympanum about two- 

 thirds the diameter of the eye, separated from it by a little more than 

 half its own diameter; disks of fingers moderately large, first finger 

 very slightly longer than second ; disks of toes smaller, first toe short, 

 reaching subarticular tubercle of second; fifth toe longer than third; 

 subarticular tubercles well developed; two metatarsal tubercles, the 

 outer faintly discernible and small, the inner very large and prominent; 

 a few weak palmar and plantar tubercles; no tarsal fold; a distinct 

 tubercle on the heel; the bent limbs being pressed along the sides, 

 knee and elbow overlap; the hind limbs being adpressed, the heel 

 reaches far beyond the snout; the hind limbs being placed vertically 

 to the axis of the body, the heels greatly overlap. Skin of head, back, 

 and throat very finely pustular, more coarsely so on the sides around 

 the anus and on the femur; a well-developed dorsolateral glandular 

 fold; a heavy fold leaving the posterior corner of the eye, going above 

 the tympanum and passing diagonally downward behind the arm, 

 where it branches, one of the branches shortly becoming lost in the 

 axillar region, the other branch paralleling the dorsolateral fold nearly 

 to the groin ; a number of short, narrow, glandular ridges on the anter- 

 ior half of the back, running diagonally even onto the eyelids, and 

 similar but longer ones on arms, legs, and feet; a small tuberclelike 

 projection in the center of the interorbital region caused by the junc- 

 tion of several of these small ridges; small glandular tubercles on the 

 loreal region and in front of the ear; skin of belly and lower surfaces of 



