HERPETOLOGY OF PORTO RK'< >. 



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The only place we found it in Vieques was in the nearly dry bed of 

 a small creek back of the town of Isabella Segunda, where they kept 

 themselves concealed on the damp ground under flat stones. 



List of specimens of EL uthlrodactylus anittlensis. 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RICHMONDI" new species. 



Diagnosis. — Toes free without a vestige of web; belly smooth; tym- 

 panum distinct, less than one-half the diameter of the eye; vomerine 

 teeth in two long angular transverse series, extending beyond the 

 external border of the inner nares and some distance behind them; 

 head moderately broad; interorbital space somewhat broader than 

 upper eyelid; upper surface granular; second linger longer than first; 

 inner metatarsal tubercle large; no plantar tubercles; digital disks 

 small; nostril much nearer tip of snout than eye; hind limbs not cross- 

 barred. 



ZZofo'fotf.— Porto Rico. 



Type.— U.S. N.M. No. 26884; Catalina plantation, about 890 feet 

 altitude; L. Stejneger, collector; February 22, 1900. 



Description of type specimen. — U.S.N. M. No. 26884; Catalina plan- 

 tation, Porto Rico, 890 feet altitude; February 22, 1900; L. Stejneger, 

 collector. Tongue narrow, somewhat emarginate behind; vomerine 

 teeth in two angular series behind the choana?, their distance from the 

 choanse greater than the diameter of the latter; inner arm of each 

 vomerine series longer, outer extending laterally beyond the choanse; 

 nostril much nearer the tip of the snout than the eye, the distance 

 from the eye slightly less than the diameter of the latter; upper eye- 

 lids somewhat narrower than interorbital space; tympanum slightly 

 less than one-half the diameter of the eye, its distance from the latter 

 slightly less than its diameter; disks of fingers rather small, hrst finger 



«To Dr. Charles W. Richmond. 

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