THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 



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supralabial crest and an equally faint subnasal ridge; no true parietal 

 crest present, although there is a bony prominence with elongate 

 ridges on that region ; snout prominent ; lores concave ; eyes sunk deep 

 in large squarish sockets; upper lip slightly extended horizontally; 

 tympanum eUipticaUy erect, its horizontal diameter about one-half 

 the width of the eye ; parotoid gland large, descending behind the ear 

 and ending below the level of the jaw, but not of very distinct outline 

 posteriorly where it merges with the skin of the back, which is simi- 

 larly covered with scattered pustulose conical warts on its anterior 



Figure 1. 



-Bufo giintheri: Dorsal view. Type, U.S.N.M. No. 59081, from Port-au-Princc, 

 Haiti. Natural size. 



portion, the largest of these occin'ring in a group on each side of the 

 midline, well behind the parotoids; first finger slightly shorter than 

 second; toes about one-half webbed; subarticular tubercles conical, 

 single; one large metacarpal and two well-developed metatarsal 

 tubercles ; a strong fold on tarsus, ending distally in an elongate tarsal 

 ridge; no single large tibial gland in evidence, although many conical 

 pustulose warts are present ; posterior portion of back and upper parts 

 of hmbs glandular but not tubercular, presenting a sharp contrast to 

 the skin of the forepart of the back and the tibia and the forearm, 



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