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which is covered with conspicuous conical pustulose tubercles, which
are markedly spinose only in the region behind the ear; skin of belly
areolate, becoming finely tuberculate on the throat and rather heavily
tuberculate beneath the thighs ; skm beneath tibia and forearm smooth
upper surfaces of hands and feet nearly smooth.
Dimensions: Tip of snout to vent, 84 mm.; tip of snout to posterior
border of ear, 24 mm, greatest width of head, 28 mm. ; foreleg, ; 43 mm.
hindleg from groin, 79 mm.
Color (in alcohol): Head clay color; back irregularly mottled with
Figure 2.
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Bufo gunthcri: a-c. Specimen from Port-au-Prince, Haiti (U.S.N.M.No. 59081)
a, Side of head; h, underside of hindfoot; c, underside of forefoot. Natural size, d, Foot
of specimen from Diquini, Haiti (M.C.Z. No. 3098). Two-thirds natural size, e. Diagram
of color pattern of young.
chocolate-brown and burnt umber, darker posteriorly, less heavy
anteriorly where it appears to be confined mostly to the pustulose
warts; traces of clay color between the warts; fore limbs burnt umber,
hind limbs seal brown above; hands and feet clay color; lower parts
clay color to ochraceous, immaculate,
Variations^^i'nrthe paratypes.—A second specimen (U.S.N,M. No.
59082) from the|^samejplace, measm-ing 53 mm. in length, is very
similar to the described specimen in proportions and in webbing of
toes; its* skin is slightly rougher on the belly and on the posterior part
; :