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to be plainly evident in all but the very young of this new species, 

 appears to be absent or very short and ill defined in darlingtoni [i. e., 

 jugans]. Also the ventral markings of darlingtoni are usually longer 

 and more confluent than in ventrilineatus. 



"Measurements 



Length of head 



and body Head Hind limb 4th toe 



Type, no. 19,857 31mm. 11mm. 37 mm. 8 mm. 



Paratypes, nos. 19,858-19,863-. 29-16 mm. 11-6 mm. 35-20 mm. 7-4 mm. 



"The type series of this new species was included by Miss D. M. 

 Cochran as paratypes of her Leptodactylus darlingtoni (February 

 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, no. 6, p. 372)." 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS FLAVESCENS Noble 



Figure 11 



1923. Eleutherodactylus flavescens Noble, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 61, p. 2; Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 23, pp.114-115, 1923 (photographs).— 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. 259, 1929.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, 

 No. 4, p. 80, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 97, 1935; BuU. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, 

 No. 2, p. 106, 1937. 



Description. — U.S.N. M. No. 65697, an adult male from Laguna and 

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

 March 1923. Tongue broad, emarginate behind; vomerine teeth in 

 two long, slightly oblique, widely separated patches behind and 

 between the choanae, which are very far apart; head moderate, with- 

 out ridges; nostril much nearer end of snout than eye, its distance from 

 eye equaUng diameter of latter; upper eyelid about three-fourths the 

 interorbital space ; tympanum equal to two-thirds the diameter of the 

 eye, its distance from the eye a little less than half its own diameter; 

 disks of fingers and toes large, notched; disk of third finger about 

 four-fifths the greatest diameter of the tympanum, of fourth toe 

 slightly smaller; first finger shorter than second, toes and fingers with 

 the mere vestige of a web; first toe long, reaching to base of disk of 

 second toe; fifth toe considerably longer than third; subarticular 

 tubercles well developed; two metatarsal tubercles, the outer very 

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

 palmar and plantar tubercules ; a faint tarsal ridge, but no tarsal fold ; 

 the bent limbs being pressed along the sides, knee and elbow overlap; 

 the hind limbs being adpressed, the heel reaches the tip of the snout; 

 the hind limbs being placed vertically to the axis of the body, the heels 

 barel}'' overlap; skin of upper parts fairly smooth, with some small 

 scattered glandules on the upper eyelids and snout and a row of larger 

 ovoid glands down the sides from ear to groin; a faint dorsal ridge; no 

 dorsolateral fold; skin of throat and lower surfaces of arms smooth; 



