110 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
Description:— Adult M. C. Z. 3,117. Cuba: Guantanamo, Monte Libano, 
El Peri, 1914. C. T. Ramsden. 
Tongue narrow, oval, slightly nicked behind; vomerine teeth in two short 
groups, which are oblique and a short distance behind the choanae, not extend- 
ing beyond the latter laterally and converging backward near the median line, 
the interval between the groups about equal to the distance from the choanae; 
nostrils very near tip of snout, their distance from the eye equalling its diameter; 
upper eyelids narrower than interorbital space; tympanum rather small, about 
one half the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye a little less than its 
diameter; fingers with well-developed discs, first finger equalling second in 
length; discs of fourth and fifth toes equalling those of fingers, others slightly 
smaller; tip of first toe reaching the base of the dise of the second; two incon- 
spicuous metatarsal tubercles; soles smooth except for a very few undeveloped 
tubercles; no tarsal fold; the bent limbs being pressed along the side, knee 
and elbow overlap; hind limb being extended along the side of the body, the 
heel reaches the anterior border of the eye; hind limbs being placed vertically 
to the axis of the body, the heels overlap considerably; skin above with a very 
few scattered granules on back and sides, a very fine, scarcely perceptible mid- 
dorsal glandular ridge; belly and posterior aspect of thighs strongly granular; 
throat and anterior aspect of thighs smooth; belly without a modified discoidal 
area. 
Colour (in aleohol) :— Uniform brown above, lighter beneath. 
Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 29 mm. 
Width of head 4.2 mm. 
Diameter of eye 3.8 mm. 
Diameter of tympanum 1.9 mm. 
Fore limb from axilla 16.5 mm. 
Hind limb from vent 45.5 mm. 
Vent to heel 24.5 mm. 
As Stejneger has well said in his Herpetology of Porto Rico (p. 585) the 
variations in colour seen in this frog are simply endless. A specimen taken at 
the Sierra de Guane in March 1915 is dark slaty above with a conspicuous 
white middorsal line, with dark and light spots and small blotches upon throat 
and sides. It is therefore useless to dwell upon the colouration of a creature 
which probably not only varies individually almost infinitely, but each indi- 
vidual itself may also vary from time to time. 
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