240 BARBOUR: ZOOGEOGRAPHY. 



Bufo longinasus Stejneger. 

 Stejneger, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 1905, 28, p. 765. 



The type alone is known (U. S. N. M., No. 27, 419) of this remarkable little 

 toad, quite unrelated to the other Antillean members of the genus. It was cap- 

 tured at dusk on a rock in a mountain stream near El Guama, in the Province 

 of Pinar del Rio, western Cuba, by Messrs. William Palmer and J. H. Riley, 

 during their extensive collecting trip of 1900. Naturally nothing is known of 

 its habits, or distribution. The fully webbed hind feet indicate that its habits 

 are probably more strictly aquatic than the others of the genus in Cuba. Thanks 

 to a note of Mr. William Palmer I was able to collect at about the exact type 

 locality, but unfortunately I was unable to find a single specimen. 



Bufo ramsdeni, sp. nov. 



Type: — No. 3,213, M. C. Z., one specimen, Los Hondones, Monte Libano, 

 Guantanamo, Cuba. June, 1913, C. T. Ramsden, collector. 



This beautiful species requires comparison with Bufo longinasus Stejneger 

 only. It differs in having the toes but little webbed, the fingers longer, in having 

 more numerous dorsal tubercles and a very strikingly different coloration. 



Head and body depressed; snout concave along median line, projecting 

 and rather pointed; canthus rostralis rounded; interorbital space much wider 

 than upper eyelid; tympanum scarcely visible; first finger shorter than second; 

 tips of fingers and toes not dilated and hardly swollen at all; fingers slender, 

 longer than in B. longinasus; toes slightly webbed; subarticular tubercles large, 

 single; both metatarsal tubercles well developed ; a tarsal fold; tibiotarsal artic- 

 ulation of adpressed hind limb reaches midway between insertion of fore limb 

 and tympanic region ; skin itself smooth, with small wrinkles and many tubercles 

 arranged in more or less regular longitudinal series; paratoids greatly developed 

 as in Bufo longinasus. Color (in alcohol) above almost black, a conspicuous 

 light stripe from snout to vent, this stripe is extended laterally on the eyelids 

 and thus widens to a rhomb-like figure on the head. The light stripe is bordered 

 on each side by a narrow band of deep velvety black. Below, the throat is 

 mahogany-brown, the fore part of chest and angles of the jaws deep brown; the 

 belly is white profusely spotted and streaked with dark brown, as are also the 

 lips and upper surfaces of the limbs. 



The type and only known specimen of Bufo longinasus is a male; B. rams- 

 deni while almost the same size is a female with the sexual organs decidedly 



