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Color in alcohol. —Dorsum immaculate smoke-gray parotoids wood 

 brown, upper leg surfaces with indistinct traces of two or three dark- 

 edged crossbars; throat and chest cream buff, becoming drab gray on 

 belly; lower leg surfaces coarsely mottled with cream buff and drab 

 gray; a wide seal brown lateral stripe beginning behind tympanum on 

 outer third of parotoid, continuing below lateral skinfold and fading 

 out midway to groin; anterior femur heavily marked with long sepia 

 bands on a buff ground; groin buff with a vertical sepia spot in front 

 of it; posterior femur and tibia with smaller sepia reticulations on a 

 buff ground; arm olive-buff with a few pale sepia reticulations beneath 

 and a darker reticulation on elbow; side of head olive-gray with a few 

 traces of sepia spots below eye and along lip border; soles of feet slate- 

 gray to dull olive-buff, the toe tips and subarticular tubercles buff, 

 palms of hands similar but lighter. 



Remarks. — This toad seems less brightly colored than other specimens 

 of nearly the same size or smaller. Some are almost white (in alcohol) 

 with black markings, the largest of which are concentrated along each 

 side of the midline; smaller black markings thickly cover the outer 

 parts of the back. In specimens over 50 millimeter long, the back is 

 usually uniform light brown or gray. The ventral region is pale or 

 faintly spotted in young specimens, but it often becomes clove brown 

 with scattered pale dots in the large, old individuals. The toes are 

 one-third to one-half webbed; the first finger is usually longer than the 

 second, although in a few examples these two fingers are subequal. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



BolIvak: Alto de Quimari, CNHM 61767-9. 

 Cundinamarca: Bogota, BM 80.12.5.178. 



Meta: Cafio Grande, Villavicencio USNM 144566-8; Macarena, upper Rio 

 Giiejar and El Mico, USNM 144556-64; Villavicencio, MLS 63(a-d). 

 Valle: Buenaventura, BM 95.11.16.62-3. 

 Vattpes: Amanaven, boca del Rio Giiaviare, USNM 144569-70. 

 ECUADOR: Cachabe\ BM 98.4.28.123-8, USNM 71121; Paramba, BM 88.4.- 

 28.129-31; Sarayacu, BM 80.12.5.228. 



Bufo haematiticus Cope 



Plate 16g-i 



1862. Bufo haemalilicus Cope, 1862a, p. 157 (type locality, region of Truando> 

 New Granada [Choco], Colombia); 1876, p. 94. — Keferstein, 1867, 

 p. 353; 1868, p. 295, pi. 9, fig. 3.— Boulenger, 1882a, p. 290; 1898a, p. 

 123; 1913, p. 1022— Giinther, 1901, p. 243.— Peracca 1904, p. 35.— 

 Nieden, 1923, p. 110.— Andersson, 1939, p. 15.— Breder, 1946, p. 393 — 

 Gallardo, 1962, p. 96. 



1862. Rhaebo haematiticus— Cope, 1862b, p. 357; 1863, p. 49. 



Description. — USNM 147516, an adult female from the Virology 

 Field Station, Rio Raposo, Valle, Colombia. No bony ridges on top of 



