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are other records for small frogs in the West Indies ; but without specimens it is 

 impossible to refer them to their correct position, and for that reason their records 

 are not included in this paper. 



Eleutherodactylus johnstonei, sp. nov. 

 Plate, figs. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9. 



Types: — No. 2,759, M. C. Z., two figured specimens, St. Georges, Grenada, 

 G. M. Allen and C. T. Brues, collectors. Besides the types there is an enormous 

 series of specimens, young and adults, from various localities in the coastal low- 

 lands of the island. 



Dr. Allen's notes present the following brief history of this species: — "Mr. 

 Septimus Wells tells me that this small piping frog was introduced about 25 

 years ago [i. e. about 1885] from Barbados, and has since spread up country. 

 It is, of course, absent from the forests of the high region about Grand Etang. 

 I heard the last one near the side of the highway about three miles above St. 

 George's." 



I am very loath to designate as types of a new species individuals from a 

 locality of which the species is not truly a native. Since, however, no specimens 

 are available from Barbados, and the species was also possibly introduced there, 

 there is no alternative but to use the material in hand. 



This is a short-limbed, heavy-bodied species belonging to that section of the 

 genus having a granular belly, and strong oblique groups of vomerine teeth 

 posterior to the internal nares, and converging posteriorly toward the mesial 

 line. 



Tongue rather narrow, oval, free, and unnicked behind; vomerine teeth in 

 two strong oblique series, arising immediately behind the posterior inner margin 

 of the choanae, not extending laterally beyond the latter, and strongly converging 

 backward, the interval between the series slightly less than their distance from 

 the nares; nostrils much nearer tip of snout than eyes, their distance from the 

 eyes about equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of one of the latter; 

 upper eyelid less wide than interorbital space; tympanum almost exactly half 

 the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye not over two thirds its diame- 

 ter; fingers with well-developed discs, first very slightly shorter than second; 

 discs of toes smaller than those of fingers ; tip of first toe not quite reaching the 

 base of the disc of the second; two metatarsal tubercles, moderate in size, and 

 with the outer larger than the inner; soles with rather abundant, feebly devel- 

 oped tubercles; no tarsal fold; the bent limbs being pressed along the side, knee 



