146 BULLETIN 160, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



PHYLLOMEDUSA MORELETH (Diun6ril) 



Morelet's Frog 

 Figures 19, a; 20, a, b 



1853. Hyla moreletii Dumeril, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, ser. 3, Zoology, vol. 19, 



p. 169. 

 1861. Hyla holochlora Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, pt. 3, p. 460, pi. 32^ 



fig. 2. Mar. (Coban, Guatemala.) 

 1882. Hyla moreleti Brocchi, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Am^rique 



Centrale, recherches zoologiques, pt. 3, sect. 2, p. 31, pl. 1, fig. 1; pl. 13, fig. 1. 

 1901. Agalychnis moreletii Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and 



Batrachia, p. 289, Sept. 



Type locality. — Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala. 



Range. — From Volcan de Tuxtla in southern Vera Cruz and San 

 Miguel in northern Oaxaca southward through Central America to 

 Panama. 



Remarks.— The two cotypes of Hyla moreletii (M.H.N. P. No. 428, 

 parchment label No. 767) were collected at Coban in Vera Paz, Guate- 

 mala, by Arthur Morelet. The bodies of these cotypes are quite soft, 

 and the coloration has faded to a creamy white. The head-and-body 

 lengths are, respectively, 68.5 and 59 mm. It was further noted that 

 the hind limb being carried forward along the body, the tibio-tarsal 

 joint reaches to between eye and tip of snout; toes fully webbed with 

 exception of last phalanx of fourth toe, which has a dermal fringe; 

 tarsal fold indistinct; fingers two-thirds webbed, the last phalanx of 

 third finger bordered by a dermal fringe; an external callosity at base 

 of first finger; sldn on abdomen and under surface of tliigh granular; 

 vomerine teeth in transverse rows between and at level of anterior 

 margins of choanao. 



Osbert Salvin states that he obtained three examples of his Hyla 

 holochlora at Coban in Vera Paz, Guatemala, and that all of them 

 were caught by the Indians. One of these (B.M. No. 1864. 1. 26. 

 142) is Hsted in the catalogue as the type of this species. The follow- 

 ing notes were made on this specimen: Head-and-body length, 76.5 

 mm.; transverse diameter of tympanimi, 4.6 mm.; transverse diameter 

 of eye, 6.6 mm.; anterior edge of eye to nostril, 7.2 mm.; width of 

 head at level of posterior angles of jaws, 25.5 mm.; the hind limb being 

 carried forward along the body, the tibio-tarsal joint reaches to about 

 halfway between eye and tip of snout; long tarsal ridge from base of 

 first toe to tibio-tarsal joint; toes fully webbed with exception of last 

 phalanx of fourth toe, which has a dermal fringe; inner metatarsal 

 tubercle large and flat, no outer one; subarticular and supernumerary 

 tubercles on plantar surface of foot; tip of first finger reaches to apical 

 disk of second; fingers two-thirds webbed, the last phalanx of third 

 finger bordered by dermal fringe; vomerine teeth between and at 

 level of anterior margins of choanae; abdomen and under surface of 



