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Colour (in fresh specimen): — Brown, with many lighter cross-streaks on 
nape and body. Belly white, throat and lower side of legs dusky brown. 
Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 16.5 mm. 
Width of head 7 mm. 
Diameter of eye 2mm. 
Diameter of tympanum 1.6 mm. 
Fore limb from axilla 11 mm. 
Hind limb from vent 25 mm. 
Vent to heel 14 mm. 
Gundlach does not mention exactly whence the types came but stating 
that the species lives in the woods, is rarely found in cultivated regions or near 
towns and that its voice is that of a tiny bell which while faint is so penetrating 
that it may be heard a great distance. The voice it has in common with the 
other terrestrial Cuban Eleutherodactyli. 
During January, 1917, the senior author took twenty-five young examples 
which undoubtedly belong to this species, in the decaying vegetable trash of 
an “hoyo” in the Sierra at Luis Lazo, which had many years ago been planted 
to coffee. The little frogs were excessively active and reminded one of nothing 
so much as crickets. Their colouration was uniform and peculiar in consisting 
of a dark brown upper surface crossed by eight or ten narrow transverse bands 
of lighter brown, giving a decidedly zebra-like effect. The lower side of the 
belly was white but the throat and lower surfaces of legs were dusky brown. 
Curiously enough in all our excursions we had never previously taken this 
frog. A careful reéxamination of the series from Soledad recorded as FE. varians 
(Mem. M. C. Z., 1914, 44, p. 245) makes it quite clear that they were really 
the young of FE. ricordii. Stejneger (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 1917, 53, p. 263) shows 
that Palmer and Riley took it at Mariel, San Diego de los Bafios, and at El 
Guama. 
11. ELmUTHERODACTYLUS AURICULATUS (Cope). 
Plate 6, fig. 2, 3. 
Ranita de los Curujéyes. 
Diagnosis:— A small frog with granular belly, vomerine teeth in two short 
straight series not extending laterally beyond the choanae, nostrils very near 
tip of snout and well-developed dises on fingers and toes. 
