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orbital diameter about equal of distance from eye to nostril; nostril very 

 near tip of snout; interorbital space about equal to width of upper eyelid; 

 vomerine teeth absent; tympanum hidden; fingers 2, 3 & 4, with slight but 

 well defined dilatations; first without disc and shorter than second; toes 

 long, second and fourth equal ; no trace of web ; with discs more triangular 

 and slightly larger than those of fingers; subarticular tubercles, long, rather 

 well developed; a very indistinct outer, and a long, rather well developed, 

 inner metatarsal tubercle; tibiotarsal articulation reaching to half way from 

 eye to tip of snout; skin roughly plicate on head, sides and back; belly 

 strongly granular. 



Color in alcohol (fresh, well preserved specimen not shrunken): Dirty 

 black, a faintly defined middorsal light thread like mid-line; thighs narrowly 

 cross barred black on dark brown. Belly dirty dark brown. 



Phyllobates beatriciae, sp. nov. 



Type M. C. Z. 8022, taken July 30, 1921, on the wooded hill back of Victoria 



farm near Zent not far from Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. E. R. Dunn 



collector. 



Snout prominent, longer than the diameter of the orbit; loreal region 

 slightly concave; nostril situated at a point about one third the distance 

 from tip of snout to eye; interorbital space not much broader than upper 

 eyelid; tympanum not covered by a fold, large, over half the diameter of 

 the eye but very indistinct; digital discs feebly developed; two very small 

 and indistinct metatarsal tubercles; a short oblique ridge on the inner 

 aspect of the tarsus; tibiotarsal articulation reaching to beyond eye, almost 

 to nostril; skin of sides smooth, of back feebly granulate, of belly, over 

 central area, with feeble granules and short glandular ridges. 



Color in alcohol uniform black above. Lower sides, belly and thighs 

 with fine yellowish marbling. 



Distance from snout to vent 20 mm.; greatest width of head, 7 mm.; 

 distance from axilla to tip of longest digit, 14.5; distance from groin to tip 

 of longest toe, 30.5. 



This species is named for Miss Beatrice Johnson of Ipswich, Mass., who 

 has aided the development of the M. C. Z. collection of reptiles and 

 amphibians in many ways. 



Phyllobates talamancae (Cope). 

 Dendrobates talamancae Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ser. 2, vol. 8, 



1875, p. 102, PI. 23, fig. 6. 



Type locality. Old Harbour, eastern coast of Costa Rica; Gabb, collector. 

 (About 20 miles south of Port Limon.) 



Redescribed from two specimens taken at Santa Cecilia, Costa Rica, by 

 E. R. Dunn, Sept. 7, 1920. 



(Dendrobates lugubris Schmidt, Denksch. Acad. Wien, 14, 1858, p. 250, 

 pi. 2, fig. 14, type loc. From leaves and flowers of the evergreen (immer- 

 griin) forest, 5000-7000 ft., on the road from Bocas del Toro to the Volcan 

 Chiriqul, v. Warszewicz coll. Types in Mus. Cracow. This is a different 

 species which is fairly well figured and described and is beyond doubt 

 another Phyllobates.) 



