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and the length from its autAirior bonier to the nostril. Internal nares lougitndinal ; 

 vomerine teeth between them iu two transverse fasciculi, which together form a series 

 which is convex backwards. Ostia pliaryngea half the size of choanic. Tongue oval. 

 Heel reaching a little beyond end of muzzle. Web short, extending to middle of 

 antepenultinate phalange of fourth digit ; none between first and second digits. 

 Fingers free ; the first opposing the second, which is longer and equal to the fourth 

 (fifth). Palettes on all digits transversely oval. Skin nearly smooth, but with nu- 

 merous small warts on the top of the head and the scapular and interscapular re- 

 gions. Abdomen and sides finely areolate ; throat and limbs smooth. 



The color above is light gray, with dark gray markings as follows: A wide band 

 descending downwards and forwards from eye ; a wide band from eye above tympa- 

 num to behind the scapula ; a cross-band on the sacrum, and one across the middles 

 of the ilia. These marks are all quite indistinct. Similar cross-bands on exposed 

 surfaces of limbs ; six on femur, four on tibia, and five on digit of posterior foot. Con- 

 cealed surfaces of femur and tibia light (? red or yellow) with purplish black cross- 

 bands ; three on front and back of femur, and four on under side of tibia. Several 

 small spots of the same in the groin. Fore legs, throat, and belly immaculate. 



Length head and body, 37°'™; length to tympanum, inclusive, 14m°' ; the hind 

 leg, 63'""' ; the hind foot, 25"'™, 



Nicaragua, MacNeil ; No. 13974 Nat. Museum. Dedicated to the distinguished zool- 

 ogist, Dr. G. A. Boulenger. 



Smilisca Cope, 



Proc. Acad, Phila., 1865, 194; Joum. Acad, Phila,, 1866, p, 85, 



Smilisca baudinii Dum. Bibr., Hyla laud'mii Dum^ril et Bibron, Erp, G^n,, viii, 564 ; 

 Giinther, Uatal, Brit, Mus., 105; Cope, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1863; Hyla vanvlietii 

 Baird, Proc, Acad. Nat, Sci, Phila,, 1854, p, 60; U, S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., t. 

 xxxviii, figs. 1-3 ; Hyla vociferana Baird, U, S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., t. xxxviii, 11, 

 12, 13 (no description); Hyla vmricolor Cope, I.e., 1862, p. 359; Sinilisca daulinia 

 Cope, 1. c, 1865, p. 194 (skeleton), 

 nigh Valley of San Jos^, Costa Rica, Van Patten; Guatemala, Hague; Peten, Berendt; 

 Tehuantepec, Sumichrast; Guadalaxara, Major; Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 

 Sumichrast; Mirador, Sartorius; Rio Grande del Norte, Van Vliet. 



Hypsiboas Wagler. 



Cope emend. Journ. Acad. Phila., 1867, p. 200; Plectrohyla Brocchi, Bull. Soc. Philo- 

 math. Paris, 7 (i), p, 92 ; Cauphiaa Brocchi, 1, c, p. 129, 

 Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, Proc. Amer, Philos, Soc, 1886, p, 272. 



Nicaragua, Bransford. 

 Hypsiboas xerophyllum Dum, Bibr, Erp. G6n., viii, 549. (Hyla) var. 



Nicaragua, Bransford. 

 Hypsiboas albomarginatus Spix, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1886. 



Nicaragua, Bransford. 

 Hypsiboas crepitans Wied, Wagler, Syst. Amphib., 1830, p, 200; Hylaci-ejntansWied. 

 Beitrilge zur Naturgesche, Brag, 525 ; Boulenger, Catal. Batr, Grad, Brit, Mus. 

 1882, 352; Hyla palmata, douinercd et lecaillanti Dum, Bibr,, Erp, G6n6rale, viii, p. 

 545-550 ; Hyla piu/nax Schmidt, Denkschr. Wiener Akademie, 1858, 243, pi, ii, figs. 

 5-6. 

 Chiriqui River, Warczeivicz. 

 Hypsiboas guatemalensis Brocchi ; Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, Bull, Soc, 

 Philoraathique Paris, 7 (1), p. Ofi; Cauphiaa guatemalensis Brocchi, 1, c, p, 129, 

 Guatemala, Brocchi, 



