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Range 



Known from Maricao and El Yunque, it is probably confined to the 

 coffee belt and the moist forests above it. 



Type 



A. M. K H. No. 10318, $, El Yunque, near the Forester's cabin 

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



Description of Type 



Habitus slender, head narrower than the body, legs rather short, snout 

 sharp, pointed; nostril two-fifths the distance from the end of the snout 

 to the orbit ; can thus rostralis sharp ; interorbital space broader than the 



Fig. 7. — Eleutherodactylus trittoni, new species 

 A. M. N. H. No. 10318, type. Twice natural size. 



eyelid; heel reaching the anterior border of the orbit; heels meeting but 

 not overlapping when the legs are at right angles to the body; top of 

 snout flat, as is the anterior half of the back behind the eyes, the side of 

 the body being vertical anteriorly; vomerine teeth in two small rounded 

 patches, behind and within the choanse; tympanum indistinct, separated 

 from the eye by less than its diameter; dorsum smooth, venter coarsely 

 granulate ; digital disks small, as long as wide ; a well-defined tarsal fold ; 

 a well-developed subgular vocal sac. Dorsum light grayish brown, venter 

 lighter. Two black spots between the eyes, one on the middle of the 

 back, and three posteriorly on the back, above the groin; legs with a 

 single faint darker bar on the femur; concealed surfaces of the femur 

 not reticulated; a black subcanthal streak, continued below the dorso- 

 lateral angle behind the eye. 



