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Eleutherodactylus weinlandi, sp. nov. 



Type: — No. 2,050, M. C. Z., an adult, Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Decem- 

 ber, 1881, M. Abbott Frazar, collector. 



, The type of this distinct new species is the one that Garman recorded 

 from Puerto Plata as Hylodes lentus (Bull. Essex inst., 1887, 19, p. 14). It is 

 related to E. richmondi Stejneger of Porto Rico, and through it to E. lentus of 

 St. Thomas. In some characters it suggests E. jamaicensis; and these species 

 together probably form a natural series through the Greater Antilles as E. 

 auriculatus, E. martinicensis, and E. johnstonei do in both the Greater and the 

 Lesser Islands. The migration of the first group took place after, and of the 

 second group before, the opening up of the deep passage through the Virgin 

 Islands. 



Tongue rather narrow, slightly emarginate behind; vomerine teeth groups 

 meeting to form a continuous — — —-shaped series behind the choanae, there is 

 no space between the series and the choanae, but the series extends laterally 

 beyond the choanae almost to a line with the margin of the jaws; nostril much 

 nearer tip of snout than eye, the distance from the eye being equal to its diameter. 

 Tympanum slightly less than one half the diameter of the eye, its distance from 

 the latter about equal to its diameter; discs of fingers small; first toe short, 

 only reaching the subarticular tubercle of the second; subarticular tubercles 

 well developed; two well-developed metatarsal tubercles; no plantar tubercles; 

 no tarsal fold; the bent limbs being pressed along the sides, the knee and elbow 

 meet ; hind limb being extended along the side, the heel reaches the centre of the 

 eye; hind limbs being placed vertically to the body-axis, they overlap; skin 

 above and on the flanks very finely granular; underside smooth; posterior 

 border of thigh areolate. 



Color, spirit specimen: dorsum dark brown, a fight line on each side begin- 

 ning at the nostril, running through the eye, and ending in a light area which 

 covers the sacral region. Limbs, except hinder side of thigh, and belly light 

 and immaculate. The sacrum and hind limbs appear to have been red in life. 

 Garman states that they were so, but evidently by inference also. 



This species is named to commemorate the work of Dr. D. F. Weinland, 

 whose indefatigable collecting on this island greatly increased our knowledge 

 of Antillean herpetology. 



In the collection made by Mr. W. M. Mann there is an immature example 

 from Diquini, Haiti, which seems to be referable to this species. 



