576 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Dime^isiony:. 



mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 144 



Tip of snout to posterior edge of tympanum 15 



Greatest width of head - - 15 



Fore legs from axilla 20 



Hind leg from vent to heel 31 



Hind leg from vent to tip of longest toe , . . . 57 



('oloration of living specimens.— Adult; U.S.N.M. No. 26820: L. S. 

 No. 9043; Mameye.s, Porto Eico, March 3, 1900. General color al)ove 

 olive, the dusky marking's dark grayish brown, nearly blackish brown 

 below the dorso-lateral fold and on femur; the dorso-lateral fold and 

 narrow edges around the dark markings pale olive gray; the trans- 

 ocular band and cutting edge of lip dark grayish brown; the supra- 

 labial light band pale straw yellow; underside whitish; throat finely 

 sprinkled with dark chocolate In-own; iris olive silvery, overlaid with 

 blackish. 



Another adult specimen, same locality and time (U.S.N.M. No. 

 26821, L. S. No. 901:'l), had the general color a little more cla^^ey and 

 the dark markings darker and arranged longitudinally. (In alcohol 

 the middle line of the back becomes quite light, forming a pale median 

 band from between eyes to vent, bordered on both sides by a blackish 

 line.) 



J7/M«(/.— U.S.N.M. 26891; L. S. No. 9040; Catalina plantation, about 

 890 feet altitude; March 1, 1900. Above clay-colored, becoming darker 

 posteriorly and on sides below the dorso-lateral fold which, like the 

 warts on the sides and a few on the back, is copper colored, the 

 fold being edged with dusky below; a broad cream-colored band from 

 tip of snout under eye and tympanum to arm, bordered above and 

 below by very distinct black lines, the upper one through nostril, eye, 

 and tj^mpanum, the lower margining the upper lip; the light labial 

 band is continued as upper side of the arm, which is slightly more 

 brownish, and the l)lack band below also continues halfway down to 

 the elbow; a black mark in the groin; hind limbs pale olive, barred 

 with black; posterior surface of femur with a conspicuous longitudinal 

 streak of silvery white, margined witli black; iris golden, overlaid 

 with black. 



In a large lot (56) of specimens from Vieques (U.S.N.M. Nos. 27084 

 to 27139; L. S. No. 9052; March 24, 1900), of all sizes, there is a great 

 amount of individual variation in color. The ground color of the 

 back varies between reddish brown through various shades of brown 

 and olive to olive green and even olive yellow, mostly with dusky 

 markings and mottlings between the dorso-lateral folds, though often 

 quite uniform, especially when the ground color is more or less olive. 

 The light labial line is variously developed, but nearly always plainly 

 indicated. The dusky markings on the back show no tendency to 



