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locality, agree well with MLS 309 and with the description of the 

 type. The toes in these three specimens are a little more than to a 

 little less than one-half webbed. In one example, the adpressed heel 

 reaches between the eye and the nostril. The venter is immaculate 

 except for some dark suffusions on the chin and throat. The dark 

 bars across the femur are sharp in one example, moderate in another, 

 and very faint in the third; otherwise, the pattern is similar in all 

 three. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Ctjndinamarca: Two km. southwest of Fusagasuga, MLS 309; Pueblo Nuevo, 

 near Nilo, USNM 151876-7. 



Subfamily Raninae 



Sternum bony. Terminal digits pointed or slightly dilated, without 

 disks above or below. 



Genus Rana Linnaeus 



1758. Rana Linnaeus, p. 210 (type species, R. temporaria). 



Generic diagnosis. — Pupil horizontal. Tongue free and deeply 

 notched behind. Vomerine teeth present. Tympanum distinct or 

 hidden. Outer metatarsals separated by a web. Omosternum and 

 sternum with a strong bony style. Terminal phalanges acute, trans- 

 versely dilated, or T-shaped. 



Rana palmipes Spix 



Plate 12a-c 



1824. Rana palmipes Spix, p. 5, pi. 5, fig. I (type locality, "Amazonenfluss"). — 

 Peters, 1873a, p. 205; 1873b, p. 622.— Boulenger, 1882a, p. 48; 1888a, 

 p. 40; 1891a, p. 453; 1913, p. 1026; 1919, pp. 412, 415; 1920, p. 473.— 

 Cope, 1887b, p. 19.— Giinther, 1901, p. 202.— Baumann, 1912, p. 161 

 et seq— Noble, 1918, p. 316, pi. 14.— Beebe, 1919, p. 210.— Miranda- 

 Ribeiro, 1923b, p. 802, 2 pis., 1 map; 1926, p. 165, figs. 91, 92; 1937a, 

 p. 56.— Roux, 1926, p. 292.— A. Lutz, 1927, p. 40, pi. 9, figs. 7-9.— L. 

 Miiller, 1927, p. 282.— NicSforo Maria, 1930, p. 51.— Crawford, 1931, 

 p. 37.— Schmidt, 1932, p. 161.— Kellogg, 1932, p. 200.— Crawford and 

 Jones, 1933, p. 91.— Parker, 1935, p. 505.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, p. 

 278.— Hellmich, 1939, p. 537.— Schubart, 1939, p. 57.— Dunn, 1944c, 

 p. 521.— Taylor and Smith, 1945, p. 605.— Breder, 1946, p. 420, figs. 

 22, 23.— Smith and Taylor, 1948, p. 98.— Schmidt and Inger, 1951, 

 p. 449.— Lutz and Kloss, 1952, p. 676.— Aleman, 1952, p. 28, fig. 4.— 

 Johnson, 1952, p. 284.— Taylor, 1952, p. 908.— Goin and Layne, 1958, 

 p. 113. — Stebbins and Hendrickson, 1959, p. 537. — Gines, 1959, p. 

 140.— Rivero, 1961, p. 176; 1963a, p. 93; 1964b, p. 311.— Gorham, 

 1963, p. 26. 



1845. Rana juninensis Tschudi, p. 64 (type locality, Lake of Junin, Peru, 

 13,000 ft,).— Peters, 1873c, p. 622.— Boulenger, 1920, p. 473. 



