BARBOUR : NOTES ON THE HERPETOLOGY OF JAMAICA. .287 



"Port Antonio, Jamaica. Nov. 30. Thirty-three eggs in slight depression, 

 damp ground. Eggs scarcely adherent. Movements of embryos visible. 168 

 hours later two frogs hatched. After 312 hours the whole lot had taken on the 

 light brown color which is typical of many adults." 



The species is confined to Jamaica and seems to be generally distributed over 

 the island. Mr. Garraan collected many specimens about Kingston in 1878 

 (M. C. Z., No. 2044) ; in 1905 Major Wirt Robinson sent in a series from the 

 same locality (M. C. Z., No. 2427)- The Museum has also two specimens from 

 Moneague (No. 2045). Among those recently obtained are many specimens from 

 Kingston, Mandeville, and Port Antonio collected by Mr. Wight and the writer. 

 Several Mandeville specimens measure four inches from nose to tip of outstretched 

 hind toe, which is much larger than measurements of examples from other 

 localities. 



Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis, sp. nov. 



Plate 8, Fig. 1. 



Types: five specimens (M. C Z., No. 2512), taken March, 1909, at Mande- 

 ville, Jamaica, by Thomas Barbour. 



Tongue' narrow, extensively free and not nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two arched series, each one beginning behind the center of one of the internal 

 nares and almost meeting the other at the median line. (In E. litteolus the series 

 are much more extensive in that they begin laterally beyond the outer limits of 

 the choanae). Nostrils late ro-dor sal, one third of the distance from tip of snout 

 to eye. Upper eyelids much narrower than interorbital space. Tympanum 

 rather more than one half the diameter of the eye, its distance from the latter 

 barely one half its diameter. Discs on fingers large and conspicuous, on toes 

 smaller. Pirst finger shorter than second ; first toe also short, reaching to second 

 subarticular tubercle of second toe. (The first subarticular tubercle is at the very 

 base of the toe.) Well developed subarticular tubercles throughout. Two meta- 

 tarsal tubercles, the inner strong and well developed, the outer so small as to be 

 hardly visible. No tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried forward along the 

 body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches to between the eye and the nostril. 



Color rather variable. Back brown of varying shades generally darker in mid- 

 dorsal region. Apparently always some indication of a pair of light brown dorso- 

 lateral areas. These may be conspicuous. One specimen has a light vertebral 

 line which does not, however, bifurcate and extend along the thighs as in E. lute- 

 olus. An irregular triangle of dark brown on top of head, two angles of which 

 lie on the eyelids, while the third extends on the nape and generally merges with 

 the dark dorsal area. 



The figure was made with the aid of copious notes taken from living specimens. 

 They have changed, however, but very slightly in spirits. 



