DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TOAD FROM CUBA. 



By Leonhard Stejneger, 



Cimttor, Division of Reptiles and Batracliians. 



Two species of toads, both helonoino- to the section of the genus 

 Bufo^ in which the skin of the head lias become involved in the ossi- 

 tication of the skull, have long been known to occur in Cuba, namely, 

 B. peltocephalus^ which is a large and common species, and B. empu- 

 sus^ somewhat smaller and of more local distribution. Both are con- 

 fined to the island (the former, at least, also inhabiting the Isle of 

 Pines), with related, though not closely allied, species in Haiti, Porto 

 Rico, and Central America. 



The species here to be described belongs to an entirely diflerent sec- 

 tion of the genus, and the skin of the top of the head is not only not 

 involved in the cranial ossification, but has not even a trace of the 

 bony ridges so characteristic of most toads. It was collected by 

 Messrs. William Palmer and J. A. Riley during their expedition to 

 Cuba in 1900. 



BUFO LONGINASUS, new species. 



Dlagnofiis. — No cranial bony ridges; tirst linger shorter than second; 

 toes nearly fully webbed; skin smooth, pustulous, but without asperi- 

 ties; snout conical, projecting, pointed, with the nostrils near the tip; 

 parotoids enormous, their length almost equaling their distance from 

 the groin. 



Habitat. — Cuba. 



Ti/pe.- -C'At. No. 27-119, U. S. N. M. ; El Guama, Pinar del Rio, Cuba; 

 William Palmer and J. A. Riley, collectors; March 9, 1900. 



Description of type. — Adult male: Head and body depressed, nearly 

 flat above; snout concave along median line, conical, projecting, 

 pointed; nostrils near the tip of snout and close together; canthus 

 rostralis rounded; interorbital width nuich greater than width of upper 

 eyelid; tympanum indistinct, about half the diameter of the eye; first 

 finger shorter than second, with a pad of dark brown nuptial asperi- 

 ties on top and side of basal portion; tips of finger and toes slightly 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXVIII— No. 1406. 

 Proc. N. M. vol. xxviii— 04 49 765 



