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which is covered with conspicuous conical pustulose tubercles, which 

 are markedly spinose only in the region behind the ear; skin of belly 

 areolate, becoming finely tuberculate on the throat and rather heavily 

 tuberculate beneath the thighs; skin beneath tibia and forearm smooth; 

 upper surfaces of hands and feet nearly smooth. 



Dimensions: Tip of snout to vent, 84 mm.; tip of snout to posterior 

 border of ear, 24 mm. ; greatest width of head, 28 mm. ; foreleg, 43 mm. ; 

 hindleg from groin, 79 mm. 



Color (in alcohol): Head clay color; back irregularly mottled with 



Figure 2. — Bufo guntheri: a-c, Specimen from Port-au-Prince, Haiti (U.S.N.M. No. 5908 1) : 

 a, Side of head; b, underside of hindfoot; c, underside of forefoot. Natural size, d, Foot 

 of specimen from Diquini, Haiti (M.C.Z. No. 3098). Two-thirds natural size, e, Diagram 

 of color pattern of young. 



chocolate-brown and burnt umber, darker posteriorly, less heavy 

 anteriorly where it appears to be confined mostly to the pustulose 

 warts; traces of clay color between the warts; fore limbs burnt umber, 

 hind limbs seal brown above; hands and feet clay color; lower parts 

 clay color to ochraceous, immaculate. 



Variations lire* the paratypes. — A second specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 

 59082) from the A same]f place, measuring 53 mm. in length, is very 

 similar to the described specimen in proportions and in webbing of 

 toes; its*skin is slightly rougher on the belly and on the posterior part 



