HERPETOLOGTCAL ' COLLECTIONS FROM THJ<: WEST 

 INDIES MADE BY DR. PAUL BARTSCH UNDER THE 

 WALTER RATHBONE BACON SCHOLARSHIP, 1928- 

 1930 



By DORIS M. COCHRAN 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Rcf'tilcs and Batrachians, US. National Museum 



During 3 successive years, from 1928 to 1930, the Walter Rath- 

 bone Bacon Scholarship of the Smithsonian Institution was awarded 

 to Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the United States National Museum, primarily 

 for the extension of his studies of West Indian mollusks. In addition 

 to obtaining vast series of mollusks, he was able to make valuable 

 collections in many vertebrate groups, the lizards being of especial 

 interest scientifically, as diagnoses of five new species and subspecies 

 from his collection have already been published, and three other new 

 species are being described in the present report. 



In the first excursion Cuba was thoroughly worked for mollusks, 

 and in addition nearly 100 amphibians and reptiles were obtained. On 

 the second trip, in 1929, the party touched at Cuba and Puerto Rico, 

 then continued eastward to the Virgin Islands and down the chain of 

 the Lesser Antilles to Margarita and O'rchilla and the Dutch Leeward 

 Islands just north of Venezuela. Over 400 amphibians and reptiles 

 were collected, many of them considerably extending the ranges of 

 known species. The last expedition, in 1930, yielded nearly 600 speci- 

 mens taken in the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands. Seven 

 of the eight forms new to science came from this collection of 1930. 



Class AMPHIBIA 

 Order SALIENTIA 

 Suborder Linguata 



Family HYLIDAE 

 HYLA SEPTENTRIONALIS Boulenger 



Hyla scptentrionalis Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 368, 1882, 



The only species of amphibian taken in the Bahamas by Dr. Bartsch 

 is Hyla septentrionalis. It is exceedingly common in Acklins Island, 



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