238 BATRACHIA SALIENTIA, 
teeth in two short oblique series immediately behind the choane; choane and 
eustachian openings equally open. Skin smooth above and below. Disks of the 
fingers large, especially of the two inner ones, much larger than those of the toes ; 
first and second finger subequal in length, third unusually long. A metatarsal 
tubercle (in the larger of the two specimens a minute outer tubercle); metatarsals 
without subarticular tubercles. Greyish, finely sprinkled with black and lighter 
colour. Upper lip and legs without cross-bars; concealed surfaces unspotted; no 
interorbital band. 
Length of body . . . . . . .. . . . . . « 86 millim. 
Distance between vent and heel . . . . . . . . . 39 y, 
Length of third finger . 2. 2. 2. 2. we ee ee OD, 
20. Hylodes bransfordi. 
Lithodytes bransfordit, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 274 (1886). 
Hab. Nicaragua (Bransford). 
A short-legged species, the heel reaching only to the orbit when the limb is brought 
forward. Vomerine teeth in two transverse or slightly arched series, close together, 
well behind the choane, and not “ extending exterior ” to the middle of the latter. 
Tympanum large, varying in size, equal to, or two-thirds of, the diameter of the eye. 
Snout short, with “distinct, obtuse” canthus rostralis. Disks of the toes moderate. 
Two metatarsal tubercles. The skin of the back is thrown into delicate longitudinal 
parallel folds which are easily lost. Abdomen smooth. In the colour there is much 
pink on the upper and concealed surfaces; two dark spots on the lip, one below the 
eye, another behind and above the axilla, others on the parietal region and between the 
anterior parts of the orbits. Generally a light open chevron, pointing forwards, across 
the middle of the back, with a dark one in front of it. In a large specimen a pink 
band extends from the orbit to the illum. Posterior side of the thigh brown, with 
light specks. Whitish below, throat sometimes mottled with brown. (After Cope.) 
Length of body . . . . . 2 1 2 ew ee «O25 millim. 
» hind limb from gron. . . . . . . . . 86.—C=&,, 
” foot . 2. 2... we ee ee eee dT ,, 
» tarsus. 2. 2. 1. ee ee ee eee eT 
21. Hylodes diastema. 
Lithodytes diastema, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. viii. p. 155 (1875); Proc. Am. Phil. Soe. 
XXlll. p. 274 (1886). 
Hab. Nicaracua (Bransford) ; Panama, Camp Maria Caretta (Bransford). 
Vomerine teeth in two very short transverse patches behind and within the line 
of the middle of the choane, and separated by an interspace as wide as the length of 
