Vol. XXVIII, pp. 131-132 June 29, 1915 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON A NEW SPECIES OF TAILLESS BATRACHIAN FROM NORTH AMERICA. BY LEONHARD STEJNEGER. [Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] A very interesting addition to the fauna of the United States was found in a recent collection kindly presented to the National Museum by Mr. R. D. Camp. It is a small species of the Mexican genus Syrrhophus, already represented in Texas by the type species Syrrhophus viarnockii Cope, the original specimens of which came from near San Antonio. These Leptodactylid toads differ from Eleutherodadylus and Lithodytes in the absence of vomerine teeth. Syrrhophus campi new species. Diagnosis. — Heel of extended hind leg reaches center of eye; diameter of tympanum slightly more that half that of eye ; back coarsely granular ; head wide. Type— v. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 52,290; Brownsville, Texas ; R. D. Camp, collector. Description of type-specimen. — Tongue broadly pear-shaped, somewhat truncate behind with a tendency to a posterior lateral projection on each side ; nostrils much nearer the tip of snout than the eye, their distance from the latter slightly less than the eye diameter and equal their distance from each other; upper eyelids much narrower than interorbital space which is wider than diameter of eye; tympanum distinct, circular, its rim interrupted above, slightly more than half the diameter of eye, distance from the eye one-third its own diameter; fingers with well-developed terminal disks which are truncate anteriorly; subarticular tubercles very strongly developed; palms strongly tuberculate; second finger scarcely longer than first; toes with considerably smaller disks; soles with small tubercles; both inner and outer metatarsal tubercles present and well developed ; no tarsal fold ; the bent limbs being pressed along the side, knee and elbow overlap; hind limb being extended along the side, heel reaches beyond posterior angle of eye; hind limbs being 25-Proc. Biol. Soo. Wash.. Vol. XXVIII. 1915. (131)
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