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remainder of ventral surface immaculate pearl-gray; lips also pearl- 

 gray, with very indistinct darker suffusions. 



ELEUTHEBODACTYLUS BREVIROSTHIS Shreve 



Figure 20 



1936. Eleutherodadylus brevirostris Shreve, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

 vol. 15, p. 95.— Barbour, BuU. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 100, 1937. 



Original description. — ''Type. — Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 no. 21,557, a female, from northern and eastern foot-hills. Massif de la 



Figure 20. — Eleutherodactylus brevirostris: a, Dorsum; b, venter; c, profile of head; d, inside 

 of mouth; e, underside of hand;/, underside of foot. M.C.Z. No. 21573, paratype, from 

 Morne La Hotte, Haiti, a-d, X I'/z; ',/, X 3. 



Hotte, 1000-4000 ft., Haiti, collected by P. J. Darlington in October, 

 1934. 



"Paratypes: Museum of Comparative Zoology, nos. 21,558-21,560, 

 with the same data and history as the type, and Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, nos. 21,573-21,574, from Mt. La Hotte, 5000 ft. to 

 summit, date and collector the same as that of the type. 



"Diagnosis. — Possibly most closely related to Eleutherodactylus 

 schmidti from which it differs lq the shape of the head, size of the 

 series of vomerine teeth, in possessing smaller digital disks, and a 

 shorter hind limb ; also differs in coloration. 



"Description. — Tongue oval, very slightly nicked behind (very 

 slightly nicked, or not nicked, in paratypes) ; vomerine teeth in two 



