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SalM collected co types of Hyla euphorbiacea Giinthev, H. lichenosaGiin- 

 ther, and Bufo sternosignatus Giinther, and the type of Gastrophryne 

 elegans (Boulenger). One of the co types of Eleutherodactylus sallaei 

 (Giinther) was also received from Salle, and while Mexico is the only 

 locality given, it too was probably collected somewhere in the State 

 of Vera Cruz. The follo^\dng specimens, purchased from Emile Par- 

 zudaki, a dealer at Paris, lack definite localities: Cotypes of Hyla 

 euphorbiacea Giinther, H. lichenosa Giinther, and Bufo sternosignatus 

 Giinther, and the type of B. anomalus Giinther. The specimens 

 acquired from Hugh Cuming, including cotypes of Hyla euphorbiacea 

 and H. lichenosa, were collected in the State of Vera Cruz, probably 

 by Auguste Salle, as the former secured a number of birds from this 

 collector. 



In 1876, Frederick du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin conceived 

 the idea of promoting a monumental work entitled "Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana," which was begun as a private undertaking, though later 

 (beginning in 1881) the collections were presented to the British 

 Museum. To Dr. Albert C. L. G. Giinther were assigned the sec- 

 tions on reptiles and amphibians, and collectors were employed to 

 secure specimens that would supplement available material. Among 

 these collectors was Herbert H. Smith, who collected at Atoyac in 

 Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco, Omilteme and Amula in Guerrero, and 

 Cuernavaca in Morelos. From Omilteme came the cotypes of Rana 

 omiltemana Giinther, Syrrhaphus omiltemanus Giinther, and Eleu- 

 therodactylus calcitrans (Giinther); from Amula the type of Tomo- 

 dactylus amulae Giinther; and from Cuernavaca the cotypes of Hyla 

 nana Giinther {H. smithii Boulenger). Dr. A. C. Buller collected 

 on the plateau of central Mexico, and at the Hacienda el Florencio 

 in Zacatecas he obtained the cotj^pes of Borborocoetes mexicanus 

 Boulenger. Godman collected in Mexico during 1887 and 1888, and 

 he is listed in the records of the British Museum as the collector of the 

 types or cotypes of five of the species described by Giinther. C. T. 

 Hoege and an Indian assistant of Godman, Mateo Trujillo, collected 

 at Jalapa and Misantla in Vera Cruz. At Jalapa, Hoege collected a 

 cotype of Hyla nigropunctata Boulenger, while Trujillo secured the 

 type of Hylella picta Giinther and the cot3^pes of Hyla iaeniopus 

 Giinther. Godman obtained the types of Eleutherodactylus venustus 

 (Giinther) and E. plicatus (Giinther) at Jalapa, while the cotypes of 

 Hyla godmani Giinther came from Misantla and Jalapa. 



Alphonso Forrer collected on the Tres Marias Islands and at several 

 localities in western Mexico, particularly at Presidio near Mazatlan 

 in Sinaloa, from where Forrer forwarded specimens that became the 

 types of Ranaforreri Boulenger and Pternohyla fodiens Boulenger and 

 the cotypes of Diaglena spatulata (Giinther) and Hypopachus oxyr- 

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