NO. 1178. ANEWDISCOGLOSSOIDTOAD—STEJNEGEIi. 901 



DescnpHon of type specimen. — Vomerine teeth in two small gToui)S 

 between thechoance; tongue large, pear-shaped, thick, adherent in 

 front, free in the posterior third; head flat, slightly broader than long; 

 snout obtusely pointed, high, abruptlj^ descending, with well-marked 

 canthus rostralis, longer than diameter of orbit; nostril considerably 

 nearer the orbit than the tip of the snout; eye moderate; interorbital 

 space about as broad as upper eyelid, much less than distance between 

 nostrils; no tympanum; fingers long, slender, obtusely pointed, free, 

 first shortest, third longest, second and fourth equal ; no subarticular 

 tubercles; three convex palmar tubercles, the inner largest; hind limbs 

 rather long, the tibio tarsal articulation reaching the center of the eye ; 

 tibia longer than femur, the heels overlapping when legs are bent at 

 right angles to body; toes rather slender, except outer, which is wide 

 and flat; webs very short, barely reaching beyond the metatarsals, but 

 edging the toes for some distance; no subarticular tubercles; a mod- 

 erately sized inner metatarsal tubercle, somewhat longer than one-half 

 the length of inner toe; no tarsal fold. Skin above granular, yet shiny, 

 wrinkled, and irregularly warty on the lower back, and with similar 

 pustules on the limbs; below smoother, wrinkled, and pustuled on the 

 posterior aspect of the femurs near the vent; a well-marked elongate 

 parotic gland extending from posterior angle of eye toward the 

 shoulder; a large elongate gland on side of body. Color above, dull 

 reddish brown, with a few indistinct blackish markings on the back; a 

 dusky band across the middle of upper eyelids and interorbital space; 

 the whole top of the head in front of this baud pale reddish gray, Avhich 

 color at the end of the snout descends on the middle line to the lip as 

 a narrow projection; on each side of this light streak the vertical 

 portion of the tip of the snout is covered by a large black spot which 

 extends backward as a narrow band through the nostrils and the eye 

 and forming the- lower border of the parotoid gland ; below the insertion 

 of the fore limb a blackish spot irregularly bordered by whitish; some 

 irregular blackish and whitish spots on the posterior aspect of the arm; 

 a blackish cro.ss baud, interrupted in the middle, at lower end of fore- 

 arm; an ill-detined, dusky baud, more or less irregularly edged with 

 whitish along outer aspect of femur and tibia, and contiuued on under 

 side of foot; posterior aspect of femur near vent dusky with whitish 

 pimi)les; tips of digits wliitish ; under side whitish, more or less clouded 

 with brownish, especialh' across the chest. 



JJintensiom. — Snout to vent, 40 mm.; width of head, 15 mm.; diam- 

 eter of eye, 4 mm.; interorbital width, 3 mm.; eye to nostril, 3 mm.; 

 eye to tip of snout, 0.5 mm.; fore limb, 25 mm.; hind limb, 59 mm. 



Only a single specimen of this remarkable animal was collected by 

 Mr. Cloud Itutter, at Humptulips, in the extreme western portion of 

 the State of Washington, August 19, 1897. Mr. Rutter was at the time 

 engaged in investigations for the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 



