THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 

 ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MINUTUS Noble 



Figure 14 



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1923. Eleutherodactylus minutus Noble, Arner. Mus. Nov., No. 61, p. 4; Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 23, p. 116, 1923 (photograph). — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 261, 1929. — Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 

 11, No. 4, p. 77, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 94, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 82, No. 2, p. 101, 1937. 



Original description. — ^"Type. — ^A.M.N.H. No. 11404; adult 9; on 

 ferns in dense palm thicket near Paso Bajito, Jarabacoa-Constanza 

 Trail, Dominican Republic; September 4, 1922; G. K. Noble. 



"Description of Type. — Head as long as broad, slightly narrower 

 than body; distance between anterior corner of the eye and nostril 

 less than the greatest diameter of the eye, about equal to the interor- 



FiGURE 14. — Eleutherodactylus minutus: a, Dorsum; b, venter; c, profile of head; d, inside of 

 mouth; e, underside of hand;/, underside of foot. A.M.N.H. No. 31406, paratype, from 

 Paso Bajito, Dominican Republic, a-d, X 2'/8; e,f, X 4'/}. 



bital width; distance between the nostril and tip of the snout con- 

 tained two times in the distance between nostril and eye; can thus 

 rostralis very sharp, the loreal region concave; tympanum distinct; 

 its diameter contained a little over two times in the diameter of the 

 eye; separated from the eye by a space equal to three-fourths of its 

 diameter. Tibio-tarsal joints of either side overlapping slightly when 

 the legs are placed at right angles to the body; tibio-tarsal joint 

 reaches the posterior border of the tympanum. Digital dilations 

 very small, the discs equal to a third or a fourth of the greatest diame- 

 ter of the tympanum; digits free, second toe slightly longer than the 

 first; no tarsal fold; vomerine teeth in two small, oblique groups far 



