96 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
So far this species is known from the type, which was captured sitting 
upon a mossy stone in a small brook, at dusk on a March evening in 1900. 
Mr. Palmer was kind enough to give a minute description of just how he found 
the spot where this treasure was caught. A careful search at that locality 
failed to reveal the species, and it is probably one of those curious forms which 
make but a periodical appearance and remain hidden during long intervals. 
Judging from what we know of its ally, Bufo ramsdeni Barbour, from the moun- 
tains near Guantanamo, it is probable that the species is extremely local in its 
distribution. For the benefit of those who may collect in Cuba, and have an 
opportunity to search again at the type-locality for this species, it may be stated 
that El Guama, with the accent strongly on the last syllable, is not a town or 
village, as would appear from the many labels of the Palmer and Riley collec- 
tion, and the name is not to be found on any map of Cuba which we have con- 
sulted. El Guamd is named from a useful tree, from the inner bast of which a 
strong rope may be readily twisted. A few miles to the north of the city of Pinar 
del Rio, one finds a stream by this name, which increases in size and finally 
becomes Rio Guama, which flows through the city of Pinar del Rio itself, and 
runs southward, emptying into the Gulf of Batabané at Coloma. On the bank 
of the upper reaches of the stream there is a small farm and a country store, 
which, as is common with such properties in Cuba, bear a distinctive name. 
This is El Guamdé. According to a recent rumor the finca has been abandoned, 
and it is not unlikely that the store may move, in which case the type-locality 
of Bufo longinasus will be very difficult to identify. 
3. Buro RAMSDENI Barbour. 
Plate 1, fig. 2. 
Ramsden’s Toad. 
Diagnosis:— A small toad having no cranial ridges; first finger shorter than 
second: which is very long; toes with but a trace of web; skin smooth with 
scattered asperities; snout conical, projecting, pointed, with the nostrils near 
the tip; parotoids very large. 
Description:— Typr. Adult 9 M. C. Z. 3,212. Cuba: Guantanamo, 
Monte Libano, Los Hondones. C. T. Ramsden. 
Head and body depressed; snout concave along median line, projected 
and rather pointed; canthus rostralis rounded; interorbital space much wider 
SN vee 
eo 
EE Lr eC 
