FROGS OF COLOMBIA — COCHRAN AND GOIN 



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Description. — USNM 51215 (paratype), from Fundaci6n, Mag- 

 dalena, Colombia. A microhylid without vomerine teeth; choanae 

 rather small and placed well forward in the roof of the mouth; tongue 

 half as wide as mouth opening, an elongate oval in form, its posterior 

 one-half free and unnotched. Snout short, pointed when viewed from 

 above, pointed in profile, the upper jaw extending considerably 

 beyond lower; nostrils more lateral than superior, not at all projecting, 

 their distance from end of snout about one-half that from eye, sepa- 

 rated from each other by an interval but slightly less than their 

 distance from eye. Can thus rostralis very slightly defined; loreal 

 region rounded. Eye small, inconspicuous, its diameter slightly less 

 than its distance from nostrils; palpebral membrane not reticulate; 

 interorbital distance about three times the width of upper eyelid, 



Figure 1. — Relictivomer pearsei, paratype, USNM 51215 (X 2). 



