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developed; no marked plantar tubercles; a rather small inner and outer meta- 

 tarsal tubercle; a feebly developed tarsal fold, which may be due to shrinkage; 

 hind limbs being bent forward along body the heel reaches beyond the tip of 

 the snout, bent vertically to the axis of the body they overlap considerably; 

 skin above extremely rugose and plicate; throat, chest, and anterior aspect of 

 thighs perfectly smooth, belly and posterior femoral aspects finely granular. 



Color of freshly preserved example. Uniform olive-brown above, below all 

 surfaces a beautiful roseate pink, front of thighs more brilliant pink, throat with a 

 few dark dots. 



I am very loath to add a species to this multitudinous genus on the basis 

 of a single specimen. Nevertheless this specimen is so peculiar in many ways 

 that I am unable to include it in any known species. At first I thought that the 

 dorsal rugosity was an artifact of preservation, as the other specimens taken at 

 the same time and place, show no signs of this peculiar condition. It is a very 

 slender and elegant form, beautifully colored and probably, localized" in eastern 

 Cuba, as, for instance E. unicolor Stejneger is confined to El Yunque in Porto 

 Rico. 



Eleutherodactylus varians (Gundlach & Peters). 



Gundlach & Peters, Monatsb. akad. wiss. Berlin, 1864, p. 390. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 

 mus., 1882, p. 215. 



A Cuban species which is next to E. ricordii, the most abundant and widely 

 distributed species in central Cuba. We collected a large series about Soledad, 

 near Cienfuegos during February, 1912. I have never found this species in 

 Oriente. 



Eleutherodactylus luteolus (Gosse). 



Gosse, Naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, p. 366, pi. 7. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit, mus., 

 1882, p. 208. Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 286, pi. 2, fig. 1. 



A very interesting and abundant species, confined to Jamaica. The meta- 

 morphosis from egg to adult is direct, the frothy egg-mass being laid in a de- 

 pression in moist earth; the period of incubation is very short. 



Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis Barbour. 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 287, pi. 2, fig. 2. 



A rather rare species, which I had supposed was confined to the highlands 

 about Mandeville, Jamaica. Recently, however, Mr. C. T. Brues, has brought 

 back a beautifully preserved specimen from Newton, Jamaica. 



