112 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
RANIDAE. 
12. PHYLLOBATES LIMBATUS Cope. 
Plate 1, fig. 4. 
Diagnosis:— Probably the smallest of living amphibians, a tiny terrestrial 
frog, rich maroon-brown with a yellow stripe on the thighs, sides of the body 
and around the head, meeting on the tip of the nose. 
Description: — Adult M. C. Z. 7,843. Cuba: Colonia Guabairo near 
Cienfuegos, February, 1910. Rosamond and Thomas Barbour. 
Tongue oval, entire; body rather stout; head not wider than body; snout 
rather abruptly acute; skin of back and sides very finely granular, skin of belly 
smooth; tympanum two thirds the diameter of the orbit, its distance from the 
latter a little less than its own diameter; nostril much nearer tip of snout than 
eye; subarticular tubercles very feebly developed, a very weak outer, no inner, 
metatarsal tubercle; the hind limb being extended along the body the heel 
just reaches the posterior border of the orbit, the limbs being flexed vertically 
to the axis of the body the heels fail to meet by a considerable distance. 
Colour (in life): — Above rich, lustrous maroon-brown; a brilliant yellow 
band extends from the tip of the snout, along each side and down the thighs 
to the knee; sides of body below the yellow line and front aspects of thighs 
black; elsewhere limbs chestnut-brown; belly yellowish cream-colour. 
Dimensions: — Tip of snout to vent 11.5 mm. 
Width of head 3.5 mm. 
Fore limb from axilla 6.5 mm. 
Hind limb from vent 16.5 mm. 
Vent to heel 10 mm. 
This is the most delicate and beautifully coloured amphibian known to us. 
It was one of the remarkable discoveries made by that most excellent collector 
Charles Wright, in the vicinity of Guantanamo. The types, probably from 
Monte Verde, are in the U. 8. N. M., though dried up beyond recognition. 
The species was rediscovered at two localities on the Soledad Estate in 1910 
(Barbour) and a few years later it was found once more near Wright’s old type- 
locality in the mountains near Guantanamo, at La Union, on Monte Libano, 
Monte Toro, Yateras, Bayate, Belona and at La Cobrera (Ramsden). In 
1915 de la Torre sent a single specimen to the M. C. Z. from Cayo del Rey 
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