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One of the two adult females still retains its dorsal coloring of vivid 

 green merging into yellow on the flanks, upper arm, and thighs. 

 Below, uniform white. The subadults measure 23-28 mm., adult 9 9 , 

 38-42 mm. Both the latter are gravid, having been taken between 

 March 10-July 17 and June 21-26, respectively. 



HYPEROLIUS PLEUROTAENIUS (Boulenger) 



1906. Rappia pleurotaenia Boulengee, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 17, 

 p. 322 (Zima, Fx-ench Cameroons). 



9 (U.S.N.M. No. 109040), Gibi 

 9 (U.S.N.M. No. 109670), Reputa 



Fourth toe with one phalange free of web, remaining toes webbed 

 to their disks; tibiotarsal articulation of the adpressed hind limb 

 reaches posterior border of eye. Coloration precisely like that shown 

 on colored plate in Barbour and Loveridge (1930, pi. 465, fig. 4). 

 Length of 9 9 , 29-37 mm. 



HYPEROLIUS PICTURATUS Peters 



1875. Hyperolius pictnratus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875, p. 206, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2 (Boutry, Ashanti, Gold Coast). 



3 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109309, 109653, 1000.59), Bendaja 

 2 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109609, 110448), Harbel 



Fourth and fifth toe with one phalange free of web, second, third, 

 and fifth webbed almost, or entirely, to their disks ; tibiotarsal articula- 

 tion of the adpressed hind limb reaches to between eye and nostril. 

 Above, pale gray to chocolate-brown, uniform, or with a few black 

 flecks; upper lip and flank with characteristic dark, or black, speckling, 

 marbling or vermiculation. Length of 9 9 , 27-30 mm. All five are 

 gravid, having been taken between May 14-27 and March 10-July 

 17, respectively. 



HYPEROLIUS OCELLATUS Gunther 



1858. Hyperolius ocellatus Gunthee, Catalogue of tbe Batraeliia Salientia in the 

 collection of the British Museum, p. 88, pi. 7, fig. B (Fernando Po and 

 Angola). 



3 5 5,166 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109310-453, 109462, 109518-29, 109654, 

 9 (U.S.N.M. No. 110437), Bendaja 



Fourth toe with one phalange free of web, remaining toes webbed to 

 their disks; tibiotarsal articulation of the adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the eye or nostril. Coloration of the largest and smallest 

 frogs is as follows: Above, pinkish white, minutely speckled with 

 brown dots, a few large brown blotches (formed of a concentration 

 of the smaller dots) on back and limbs; a brown canthal streak from 

 nostril to eye. Below, white. Two 23-mm. frogs in the Harbel series 

 are not typical but are so fresh as to have retained certain fugitive 



