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Specimens Examined 



COLOMBIA 



BolIvar: Alto de Quimarf, CNHM 61827-9; probably upper Sinii River, 

 CNHM 61778-82. 



Boyaca: Leiva, USNM 150692. 



Caldas: 20 km. south-southeast of Manizales, 2,860 m., USNM 146466; nine 

 km. east of Santa Rosa de Cabal, USNM 150719. 



Choc6: La Granja, USNM 144995; Truando, USNM 4349 (holotype). 



Narino: West of Pasto, USNM 146248; Pasto, USNM 146469. 



Norte de Santander: La Selva, USNM 147125-31; Santa Librada, Sarare 

 region, USNM 146939-41. 



Santander: El Centro, USNM 150171-86, 146929-36, CNHM 81752-8. 



Valle: Santa Elena, USNM 146942-51. 

 PANAMA: Cerro Manguillo, 2,800 ft., Veragua, ANSP 22494; El Valle, 2,000 

 ft., USNM 129901-4, 140659-60; Jacinto, Herrera, 2,250 ft., ANSP 22345-6; 

 La Loma, USNM 139900-4; Las Minas, 1,150 ft., ANSP 22557; Pequeni 

 River, head of Madden Lake, ANSP 21738-9; Tres Puntas, 2,050 ft., Herrera, 

 ANSP 22543-4; Cana, USNM 50227; Rio Cana, USNM 66319-20; Cerro 

 Azul, USNM 140060; El Valle de Ant6n, USNM 118229; La Campana, 

 USNM 139691-3; near Valle de Ant6n, USNM 139710. 



Phyllobates subpunctatus subpunctatus (Cope) 

 Plate 11a-c 



1899. Prostherapis subpunctatus Cope, p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 2 (type locality, Bogota 

 [Cundinamarca,] Colombia). — Peracca, 1914, p. 103. — Hellmich, 1939, 

 p. 8 (reprint) .—Dunn, 1944a, p. 73.— Gorham, 1963, p. 25. 



1899. Prostherapis variabilis Werner, p. 473 (type localities, all in Cundinamarca, 

 Colombia: Alto von Sibate, 2,800 m.; Tierra Nigra, Fusagasugd, 2,S30- 

 2,300 m., Boquer6n of Bogota; La Uni6n, Chingasa, 1,000-2,400 m.; 

 Paramo of Bogota, road to Choachi; Paramo of Fusagasuga). — Dunn, 

 1944a, p. 73. 



1916. Prostherapis tarsalis Werner, p. 303 (type locality, Bogotd, [Cundina- 

 marca,] Colombia). — Dunn, 1944a, p. 73. 



1920. Phyllobates subpunctatus. — Barbour and Noble, 1920, p. 401. — Dunn, 1924, 

 p. 7; 1944c, p. 520; 1957, p. 78.— Noble, 1926b, p. 9.— Stebbins and 

 Hendrickson, 1959, p. 503, fig. 1. 



Description. — CNHM 81887, an adult female from Bogota, Cundi- 

 namarca, Colombia. Tongue slightly more than half as wide as mouth 

 opening, oval, its posterior border free and very faintly notched; 

 snout rounded when viewed from above, truncate and sloping back- 

 wards in profile, the upper jaw extending well beyond the lower. 

 Nostrils lateral, slightly projecting, their distance from end of snout 

 nearly equal to their distance from eye. Canthus rostralis distinct; 

 loreal region flat, with a slight furrow between it and the upper lip. 

 Eye large, prominent, its diameter equal to its distance from tip of 

 snout; interorbital diameter 1% times that of upper eyelid, equal to 

 interval between nostrils. Tympanum very distinct, its greatest di- 

 ameter two-thirds that of eye, separated from eye by an interval 

 equal to one-third its own diameter. Fingers long, with bulbous tips, 



