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Range. — Exact limits of range unknown; occurs at Cordoba, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, as well as in vicinity of type locality in Costa Rica. 

 No specimens have been recorded from intermediate localities. 



Remarks. — In commenting upon Gastrotheca coronata, Dr. L. 

 Stejneger concluded that it is — 



probably the same as the young specimen from Carillo, Costa Rica, described and 

 figured by Guenther in the Biologia Centrali- Americana as Nototrema oviferum, 

 and possibly also with the Mexican specimen from Cordova in British Museum, 

 described by Boulenger under the same name. I feel confident, however, that 

 none of these belong to the true Gastrotheca ovifera of Weinland, from Venezuela. 



Two marsupial frogs were listed by Giinther as having been collected 

 in Mexico. The one from the Sall^ collection is a half -grown male 

 collected at Cordoba in Vera Cruz. The adult male labeled as coming 

 from Mexico was purchased from fimile Parzudaki, a Paris dealer in 

 natural-history specimens. According to Gerrit S. Miller, jr., the 

 locahties given to specimens purchased from Parzudaki have the 

 reputation in the British Museum of being quite unreliable. 



The following notes were made on the specimen purchased from 

 SaU^: 



B.M. No. 1930. 4. 10. 1; Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Salle's 

 collection: Head-and-body length, 64.6 mm.; transverse diameter of 

 tympanum, 5.1 mm.; transverse diameter of eye, 8.2 mm.; anterior 

 edge of eye to nostril, 5.8 mm.; posterior margin of bony casque to 

 tip of snout, 20.6 mm.; width of head at level of posterior angles of 

 jaws, 21.3 mm.; the hind Umb being carried forward along the body, 

 the tibio-tarsal joint reaches sUghtly beyond anterior margin of orbit; 

 a thin tarsal fold reaches more than halfway from base of first toe to 

 tibio-tarsal joint; toes about one-third webbed, the membrane reaching 

 to base of last phalanx on first, second, third, and fifth toes, and leaving 

 free the last two phalanges on fourth toe ; a prominent inner metatarsal 

 tubercle, but no outer one; subarticular and supernumerary tubercles 

 on plantar surface of foot; first finger barely reaches apical disk of 

 second; apical disks of fingers large; fingers not webbed at base; 

 vomerine teeth in essentially transverse rows, between and slightly 

 behind level of choanae; tongue subcircular, scarcely free behind; 

 can thus rostralis raised and surmounted by a ridge of minute tubercles; 

 interorbital width 7.9 mm., considerably greater than width of upper 

 eyehd; posterior edge of bony casque with high, conical, erect bony 

 spines; a similar series above tympanum, and a smaller series of spines 

 takes the place of the combined supraciliary and postorbital curved 

 cranial crest; upperparts apparently without darker color markings; 

 sides with four light-edged dark pear or gourd shaped spots, oblique 

 in position, and with the constricted end dorsal; the anterior spot is 

 nearly longitudinal and extends forward over scapula; upper surface 

 of thigh with three light-edged dark cross bands; under or concealed 

 surface of tibia with three pairs of large light-edged dark spots in 



