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region, a band between the eyes, one above the tympanum, and some 

 dorsal spots darker ; beneath light brownish. Male with a subgular 

 Tooal sac. 



New Providence Island, Bahamas. 



17. Hylodes Mnotatus. 



Rana binotata, Spix, Test. Ran. Bras. p. 31, pi. 20. f. 3. 

 Enydrobius abbreviatus, Wagl. St/st. Amph. p. 202. 

 Hylodes rugulosua, Peters, Mbn. Berl. Ac. 1870, p. 648. 

 binotatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, p. 206. 



Tongue entire or slightly nicked. Yomerine teeth in two trans- 

 verse curved series behind the choanse. Snout subacuminate, longer 

 than the orbital diameter; canthus rostralis very distinct; nostril 

 much nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space as 

 broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, half the diameter of 

 the eye. First finger much longer than second ; toes quite free ; disks 

 very small ; subarticular tubercles much developed. The hind limb 

 being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches nearly the tip of the snout. Numerous glandular lines along 

 the back; a fold above the tympanum; lower surfaces smooth. 

 Brownish above ; a dark chevron-shaped spot between the eyes ; a 

 dark streak from the tip of the snout through the eye to the shoulder ; 

 limbs cross-barred ; uniform whitish beneath. Male with a subgular 

 vocal sac. 



Brazil. 



a. (J . Eio Janeiro. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



18. Hylodes cuneatus. 

 Hylodes cuneatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 152. 



Tongue elongate-oval, slightly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two curved series, which begin opposite and much behind the ex- 

 ternal border of the choanae, and converge posteriorly. Head large, 

 broader than the body ; snout elongate, acute ; tympanum round, 

 half the size of the eye. Two metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb 

 being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches nearly the tip of the snout. Skin of upper surfaces, except 

 that of the snout, granulated ; a slight dermal fold from the tip of 

 the snout to the end of the coccyx, and another, very delicate, com- 

 mencing behind each orbit, and descending upon the side, then 

 ascending towards the Uiac region ; smooth beneath. Above blackish 

 grey ; snout lighter; a light line from the anterior border of orbit 

 to labial commissure, and one from the posterior border to the tym- 

 panum ; a light band from each supercilium to the coccygeal region ; 

 limbs indistinctly barred with brown ; beneath whitish, very mi- 

 nutely punctulated with brown, except upon the abdomen. A variety 

 is almost entirely black. 



E. Cuba. 



