BREVIORA Meseuinii of Comparative Zoology Cambridge, Mass. 29 May, 1968 Number 290 GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN THE HISPANIOLAN FROG ELEUTHERODACTYLUS WETMOREI COCHRAN Albert Schwartz' Eleutherodactylus wetmorei Cochran is a brightly colored lepto-dactylid frog which was described from a series of four specimens collected by Dr. Alexander Wetmore at Fond des Negres, Departe-ment du Sud, Haiti. The holotype and paratypes were taken from a communal nest of the Palm Chat {Dulus dominicus Linnaeus) along with two Hyla dominicensis Tschudi (Cochran, 1932:191). Later, Cochran (1941:76-77) reported 11 additional specimens of E. wetmorei, collected by W. L. Abbott, from Moron, Departe-ment du Sud, Haiti, near the extreme western tip of the Tiburon Peninsula. Both the typical and Abbott specimens were especially poorly preserved, but the frog is a very distinctive one in pattern (and in coloration in life). Two populations of E. wetmorei have the concealed surfaces of the hindlimbs with dark patterns on the brightly colored (orange to yellow) ground color; Cochran pointed out, however, that the Moron frogs seemed to lack this distinctive thigh pattern, and Shreve and Williams (1963:324) commented that two of the Moron series they examined lacked thigh markings, in contrast to the single individual they had from the Petionville area. The two-note voice of E. wetmorei is prominent in nocturnal choruses throughout southern Haiti; the frogs, however, are arbo-real (as the situation for the type series intimates), and collecting series of E. wetmorei is extremely difficult. Through the efforts of Dr. Ernest E. Williams, several excellent lots of E. wetmorei are now available from some Haitian localities, including the south-ern slope of the Massif de la Selle in the vicinity of Thiotte, and from the area between Jeremie and Dame-Marie at the extreme tip of the Tiburon Peninsula. The latter specimens amply confirm the ^Dept. of Biology, Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Fla. 33167.
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