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Range 



Taken at El Yunque and Maricao, probably confined to the coffee belt 

 and the wet rain forests above it. 



Type 



A. M. X. H. No. 10307, $, El Yunque, near the Forester's cabin 

 (about 1300 feet), September 30, 1919, Karl P. Schmidt. 



Description of Type 



Habitus of Eleutherodactylus auriculatus, but with a distinctly shorter 

 snout, its length equal to the diameter of the eye (in E. auriculatus the 

 diameter of the eye equals its distance from the nostril), and to the 

 interorbital space; canthus rostralis rounded; nostril one-third the dis- 



Fig. 3. — Eleutherodactylus gryllus, new species 

 A. M. N. H. No. 1022G. Twice natural size. 



tance from tip of snout to eye; tympanum scarcely distinct, one-fourth 

 the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye equal to its diameter; 

 toes without vestige of web ; digital disks well developed ; first toe as long 

 as the second ; an inner and outer metatarsal fold ; vomerine teeth in two 

 oblique patches behind and within the choanae; tongue large, slightly 

 nicked behind; skin smooth above, but apparently much more glandular 

 than in E. auriculatus; venter strongly granulate; a large subgular 

 vocal sac. 



Middle of the back, beginning with an interorbital line, dark gray, 

 enclosing a light spot on the occiput; sides and snout lighter, the darker 

 color everywhere consisting of minute black punctations, especially evi- 

 dent on the limbs and throat ; venter light. 



