SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 107 
9. ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PLICATUS- Barbour. 
Plate 6, fig. 1. 
Ventorilla or Ranita. 
Diagnosis:— A small terrestrial frog with the dorsal surface strongly pli- 
cate or rugose; its colour is uniform olive-brown above with the lower surfaces 
and especially the thighs pink. 
Description:— Tyrr. Adult M. C. Z. 3,056. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte 
Libano, La Union, 23 March, 1913. CC. T. Ramsden. 
Tongue medium, oval, entire behind; vomerine teeth in two long series 
which converge posteriorly and almost meet at median line, extending laterally 
to but very little beyond the choanae which are situated nearer the median line 
than in other species; head broad and rounded; snout only slightly declivous; 
nostril much nearer the tip of the snout than eye; upper eyelids slightly less 
wide than interorbital space; tympanum medium size and round, about one 
half the diameter of the eye; its distance from the latter equal to its own diam- 
eter; fingers with exceedingly small discs, the first and second fingers much 
shorter than second; subarticular tubercles well developed; no marked plantar 
tubercles; a rather small inner and outer metatarsal tubercle; a feebly developed 
tarsal fold which in the type and paratype may be due to shrinkage; hind limb 
being bent forward along the body the heel reaches well beyond the tip of snout, 
bent vertically to the axis of the body the heels overlap considerably; skin 
above extremely rugose and plicate; throat, chest, and anterior aspect of thighs 
perfectly smooth, belly and posterior femoral aspects finely granular. 
Colour (in fresh specimen): — Almost uniform dark olive-brown above, 
the lower surfaces pinkish almost roseate; the fronts of the thighs a fine brilliant 
pink, throat with a few dark dots. 
Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 22 mm. 
Width of head 10 mm. 
Diameter of eye 3 mm. 
Diameter of tympanum 1.5 mm. 
Fore limb from axilla 16 mm. 
Hind limb from vent 41 mm. 
Vent to heel 27 mm. 
A second specimen (M. C. Z. 3,119) shows all the characters of the type 
except that the brown of the upper surface is somewhat variegated or marbled 
