ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES. 



AMPHIBIA. 



Spelerpes infuscatus Peters. 

 Peters, Monatsb. Akad. wiss. Berl.. 1879, p. 778. Boulenoer, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. nni.<;., 1882, p. 72. 



In speaking of the type, Peters says: "Aiich von dieser Art besitzt das 

 Museum nur ein einziges Exemplar (No. 6556), durch das Museum Godeffroy aus 

 Hayti erhalten." 



No discovery has ever been made in the West Indian region that surpassed 

 in zoogeographic importance the finding of a salamander upon Haiti. Taken 

 in connection with the distribution of Spelerpes fuscus (Bonaparte) in Italy and 

 southern France, it is one of the suggestions that there may have been an ancient 

 connection between southern Europe and Antillea. Mr. Mann who collected 

 in Haiti (November, 1912-February, 1913) did not succeed in finding this species, 

 although he searched especially for it. 



Hyla septentrionalis Boulenger. 



BoDLENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit, mus., 1882, p. 368. 



Stejneger (The Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 330) states the reasons for crediting 

 this species to Boulenger. It is found commonly upon Cuba and among the 

 northern Bahama and Cayman Islands. I have examined the type of Hyla 

 wrightii Cope in the U. S. national museum, and can state positively that it is a 

 synonym of this species. The type of Hyla insulsa Cope has been lost. From 

 my variable series collected near Cienfuegos, Madruga, Matanzas, Havana, 

 Herradura, San Diego de los Bafios, Pinar del Rio and Guantanamo, I have no 

 doubt but that this species is a synonym also. 



Hyla vasta Cope. 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1871, p. 219. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit, mus., 1882, p. 351. 



This enormous species, one of the A'ery largest in the genus, was among tliose 

 found by Gabb while he was in charge of the Geological survey of San Domingo. 

 It is apparently very rare, since its great size would render it noticeable if it were 

 at all common, to say nothing of its probably sonorous voice, wliich must be far- 

 sounding. Cope remarks that in structure it appears to resemble Hyla lichenosa 



