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Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus (Cope). 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1862, p. 151. 



This distinct species from eastern Cuba was overlooked by Boulenger when 

 he was preparing the Catalogue of Batrachia Salientia in the British museum, 

 1882. There are several specimens in the U. S. national museum, which I have 

 examined. While in 1913 I found it at a point near Pozo Prieto, Barrio of Los 

 Negros, Jurisdiction of Jiguani and Mr. V. J. Rodriguez secured it at the Pan 

 de Azucar also in the Sierra Maestra. 



Eleutherodactylus cuneatus (Cope). 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1862, p. 152. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit, mus., 1882, p. 209. 



This little frog was among those sent to the Museum by Major Wirt Robin- 

 son, U. S. A., from Santiago, Cuba. The species was first described from eastern 

 Cuba. In February, 1912, I found a single typical example near Cienfuegos 

 The U. S. national museum has specimens from several localities in Pinar del 

 Rio, collected by Palmer and Riley. 



Eleutherodactylus plicatus, sp. nov. 



Type: — No. 3,056, M. C. Z., an adult, La Union, Monte Libano, Guan- 

 tanamo, eastern Cuba, March 23, 1913, C. T. Ramsden, collector. 



The type of this peculiar species, the sixth of its genus to be observed in 

 Cuba was sent to the Museum with specimens of E. dimidiatus and E. ricordii 

 from the same locality. 



In its habit it reminds one of E. cuneatus but it differs strikingly in the shape 

 of the head, which is much more rounded in front, in the remarkable dorsal 

 rugosity, in the position of internal nares and vomerine teeth and in the absence 

 of the characteristic black inguinal markings. 



Tongue medium, oral, entire behind; vomerine teeth in two long series 

 which converge posteriorly and almost meet at the median line, extending 

 laterally but very little beyond the choanae which are situated nearer the median 

 line than in the other species; head broad and rounded; snout only slightly 

 declivitous; nostrils much nearer tip of snout than eye; upper eyelids slightly 

 less wide than interorbital space; tympanum medium sized and round about 

 one half the diameter of the eye; its distance from the latter equal to its own 

 diameter; fingers with exceedingly small discs, the first and second fingers are 

 equal in length; first toe much shorter than second; subarticular tubercles well 



