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vomerine teeth in two oblique series, behind and within the choanae ; toes 

 free; digital disks well developed; tibiotarsal articulation reaching the 

 posterior border of the eye; heels overlapping when the legs are placed 

 at right angles to the body; skin rugose above, with scattered round 

 tubercles, especially on the eyelid; venter smooth; inner face of thighs 

 finely rugose. 



Range 



Known only from the type locality. 



Fig. 4. — Eleutherodactylus locustus, new species 

 A. M. N. H. No. 10240, type. Twice natural size. 



Type 



A. M. N. PI. No. 10240, $ , El Yunque, near the Forester's cabin 

 (about 1300 feet), Luquillo Forest Reserve, Porto Rico, September 30, 

 1919, Karl P. Schmidt. 



Description of Type 



Head slightly longer than broad, slightly narrower than the body ; 

 snout moderately obtuse, its length anterior to the eye exceeding the 

 interorbital space; nostrils one-fourth the distance between eye and tip 

 of snout from the latter; tympanum scarcely distinct, one-fourth the 

 diameter of the eye, separated from the eye by a little more than its 

 diameter; can thus rostralis rounded; elbow and knee pressed along the 

 side, overlap ; heels overlap when the legs are placed vertically to the axis 

 of the body; tibiotarsal articulation reaching the posterior border of the 

 eye; disks of fingers and toes well developed; toes without vestige of 



