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colors. Above, pale greenish yellow minutely speckled with brown 

 on back and limbs; a brown canthal streak is overlaid by a blood-red 

 band, which continues on from eye to groin as an undulating line; 

 hands and feet blood red. Below, transparently white. Length of 

 $ 2 , 22-26 mm. The largest is gravid, having been taken at Harbel 

 between March 10 and July 17. 



HYPEROLIUS FUSCIVENTRIS Peters 



1876. Eyperolius fusciventris Pbtees, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 122 

 (Liberia). 



o (U.S.N.M. No. 100041), Gibi 

 3 S S, im $ $ (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109310-453, 10&462, 109518-29, 109654, 



109656-8, 110438^6) , Bendaja 

 24 $ 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109595-607, 109646-9, 110451-7), 

 Harbel 

 5 (U.S.N.M. No. 109671), Reputa 



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

 with one-half or one phalange free, fifth webbed to disk; tibiotarsal 

 articulation of the adpressed hind limb reaches the eye or nostril. 

 Coloration, 5 2 : Above, blue-gray (green in life), an irregular, un- 

 dulating, often broken, black line extends from below commissure of 

 mouth over forearm to groin, sometimes continued over thigh to meet 

 its fellow below anus, similar wavy lines present on anterior and 

 posterior aspect of fore limb, tibia, and foot. Below, pale to lead 

 gray, almost black. A few individuals (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109380, 

 109394, 109404, 109518-23, 109605) lack the lateral line in varying de- 

 grees and may be classed as underpigmented and overpigmented as 

 they vary from very pale gray to dark plumbeous above, and all are 

 paler below, the pallid specimens being actually white. One might 

 suppose that they were J'^oung concolo?' but for the fact that most of 

 them are gravid and usually carry, in the shape of scattered specks, 

 some traces of the whereabouts of the typical markings. The $ S 

 differ slightly. Above, pale gray; a black canthal stripe present or 

 absent ; a few conspicuous black si)ots on flanks ; a light dorsolateral 

 line (as in ademetzi, which see) from posterior border of eye towards 

 groin, just discernible in one frog. Below, white. Length of $ $ , 

 21-22 mm. ; of 50 2 2 , 22-28 mm., average 25 mm. 



HYPEROLIUS ? ADEMETZI Ahl 



1931. Eyperolius ademetsi Ahl, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 17, p. 37 (Bamenda, 

 British Cameroons). 



50 S $, IS 2 2 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109454-61, 109463-517, 109660-3, 11315), 



Bendaja 

 9 S S (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109610-5, 109650-1, 110458), Harbel 



Fourth and first toe with one phalange free of web, second and 



