REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM LIBERIA — LOVERIDGE 125 



This somewhat dried individual has been compared with a paratype 

 of camerunensis^ a species long confused with latifrons Boulenger. 

 First recorded from Liberia by Parker (1936c, p. 97) . Length 76 mm. 



HYLAMBATES COCHRANAE, new species 



Gotypes.—\].'^:^M.. Nos. 109569-70, being an adult 5 and gravid 5 

 from Bendaja, Republic of Liberia, collected by William M. Mann, 

 May 14-27, 1940. 



Diagnosis. — Color pattern somewhat resembling that of Kassina 

 senegalensis from which it differs in the possession of well-developed 

 digital disks. Intermediate in position between H. cassinoides 

 Boulenger of McCarthy Island, Gambia (with topotypes of which 

 they have been compared), and H. leonardi Boulenger of Fernando 

 Po (with Liberian and Congo examples of which they have been 

 compared). It differs from cassinoides in having rather smaller, 

 rounded (instead of subtriangular) disks, broader habit, larger size, 

 and in the thighs and concealed surfaces of tibia and foot exhibiting 

 contrasted black marblings on a white ( ? red in life) ground. It 

 differs from leonardi in possessing smaller disks; shorter hind limb, 

 which reaches axilla instead of eye; smaller size; and pure white 

 (instead of black) breast and belly, etc. 



One wonders if the frogs from French Guinea, referred to Gassina 

 weali of southeast Africa (!) by Chabanaud (1921, p. 460), might 

 not in reality represent this undescribed tree frog. 



Descri'ption. — Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups situated some- 

 what posteriorly between the choanae (poorly developed in the 2 

 cotype). Head broader than long; snout rounded, shorter than the 

 diameter of the eye, interorbital space broader than an upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum rather more than half the diameter of the eye; fingers 

 long, free, with small rounded disks which are half the size of the 

 tympanum; toes half- webbed, their disks smaller than those of the 

 fingers; inner metatarsal tubercle small, rounded, feebly prominent, 

 tibiotarsal articulation of the adpressed hind limb reaches only to the 

 axilla. Skin smooth (or rugosely warty due to immersion in strong 

 alcohol) above; granular on belly and under the thighs. Length of 

 ^ 36 mm. ; length of 5 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Above, blackish, everywhere with numerous 

 large, oval, light-edged dark spots (as in maculatus) ; groin, thighs, 

 posterior side of tibia, and upper part of foot, marbled with white 

 ( ? red in life) . Below, throat of $ black, that of ? white with dusky 

 freckles around its labial border ; breast and belly of both sexes white 

 with brown vermiculations along the flanks; limbs white (? red) 

 marbled with black ; soles chiefly brown mottled with white. 



