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the sides more abundant ventrad than dorsad, and the enlarged tubercles 

 about the vent conspicuously white. 



Measurements. — Total length, tip of snout to vent, 80 mm.; width of head, 

 24 mm.; length of fore limb, 50 mm.; length of hind limb, from vent to longest 

 toe, 112 mm. 



Bufo dunni, sp. nov. 

 Plate 13, fig. 1, 2. 

 Type. — No. 11076, Museum of Comparative Zoology, adult female; para- 

 type, No. 11077, a male; also other paratypes (males and females) from Mina 

 Carlota, near Cumanayagua, south central Cuba. The mine is in the Trinidad 

 Mountains at an altitude of about 1200 feet. Collected in July, 1925, by 

 Professor Emmett R. Dunn. 



Diagnosis. — Related to Bufo longinasus Stejneger from Pinar del Rio, 

 western Cuba, and to Bufo ramsdeni Barbour from near Guantanamo. It 

 differs from the former in having a less sharp snout, in being rougher dorsally 

 and more spotted ventrally; the toes are also less completely webbed. From 

 B. ramsdeni it differs in being smoother, less spotted below, and in having a 

 sharper snout. It is like ramsdeni in having a concave crown, while longinasus 

 has a flat head. 



Description. — Female: head and body depressed; head concave and tuber- 

 cular above; weak bony ridges along canthus; snout conical, pointed, pro- 

 jecting; nostrils very near tip of snout and close together; interorbital width 

 greater than upper eyelid; tympanum invisible in type (distinguishable in the 

 male); first finger shorter than second; tips of fingers and toes very slightly 

 swollen; toes about two-thirds or more webbed (rather more in the male); 

 subarticular tubercles on fingers well developed, not so on toes; small inner 

 and outer metatarsal tubercles; a very faint tarsal fold, really represented by 

 an elongate tarsal tubercle; when the leg is stretched forward, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches the insertion of the fore limb; skin above with many 

 granular tubercles; parotoids large but indistinct, less developed by far than in 

 B. longinasus, more as in ramsdeni; throat, belly, and thighs coarsely granu- 

 lated. 



Color. — Greenish dark bars on canthus, between eyes, at elbow, mid-forearm, 

 and wrist, and also on the leg; a whitish spot on crown; a light vertebral line 

 often present in the males. 



Measurements. — Total length, tip of snout to vent, 36 mm.; width of head, 

 12 mm.; length of fore limb, 22.5 mm.; length of hind limb, from vent to longest 

 toe, 43 mm. 



Remarks. — Professor Dunn contributes the following field 

 notes; 



"I found the toads in or near streams above 1200 feet in the 

 northern part of the Trinidad Mountains, viz. at La Mina and 

 at a place called Los Tres Pilones, some two hours' riding toward 

 the Siguanea Valley. They are strictly diurnal. The males call 

 from the water's edge or from rocks in the water — a long waaa, 

 long drawn out, faint, but resembling the call of Bufo fowleri. 

 The toads were very conspicuous in the daytime. None were 

 seen at night. I heard them most often about 10 o'clock in the 

 morning. The females and young did not frequent the water 

 as much as the males. The tadpoles, of which a number were 

 taken, were strikingly black with two white rings, which, para- 

 doxically enough, made them harder to see than if they were 

 uniform black. I found no eggs. 



"The color in life was largely green, white, and brown, rather 

 gaudy. The species is very similar in both color and markings 

 to young Bufo peltacephalus." 



