FROGS OF COLOMBIA — COCHRAN AND GOIN 231 



so on sides of face and along sides below dorsolateral dark stripes. 

 These pepper-like specks occur on dorsal surface of forearm, on outer 

 side of hand, and on top of the two outer fingers. They also occur 

 in a narrow band along the dorsal surface of thigh, along the top of 

 the shank, along outer margin of foot, and on top of the three lateral 

 toes. 



Color in life. — When collected at night, the type was conspicuously 

 pale, with the pattern in dark red standing out prominently. In 

 daylight, the next morning, its ground color had become a pale, 

 orange-tinted yellow, and the canthal and dorsolateral stripes and 

 spots on the legs were very dark red. 



Variation. — The paratype is a spent, adult female 58.4 millimeters 

 in head-body length. Except for having the pepper-like markings 

 tinier and more sparsely distributed and lacking the little dark marks 

 on each thigh just above the knee, her markings are identical with 

 those of the type. She has been much longer in preservative and the 

 ground color is now a cadaverish tan instead of clear white as it is 

 in the type. The pollex, while palpable, does not penetrate the skin 

 as does that of the male. 



Remarks. — The type was collected at night, while the frog was 

 sitting on a vine some six feet from the ground near a small wooded 

 stream. The voice was not heard. 



The name refers to the bright red markings on the face. 



Hyla granosa Boulenger 



Plate 31a-c 



1S82. Hyla granosa Boulenger, 1882a, p. 358 (type locality, here restricted, 

 British Guiana, Demerar a Falls).— Werner, 1897, p. 220.— Beebe, 1919, 

 p. 208.— Nieden, 1923, p. 30.— Noble, 1923(a), p. 291.— Crawford. 

 1931, p. 33.— Lutz, 1951^, p. 310.— Rivero, 1961, p. 99; 1964a, p, 

 301.— Gorham, 1963, p. 22. 



Diagnosis. — A pale frog without dermal heel appendages, without 

 a glandular ridge above the vent, and without dorsolateral dark 

 stripes. 



The absence of heel appendages differentiates H. granosa from 

 H. guibei, and the absence of dorsolateral stripes distinguishes it from 

 H. rubracyla. 



Description. — USNM 152756, from Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia. 

 Vomerine teeth in two / ~\ -shaped series, lying close together between 

 the moderate-sized, somewhat elongate choanae; tongue two-thirds as 

 wide as mouth opening, broadly cordiform, its posterior border fused 

 and shallowly notched. Snout large, broadly U-shaped when viewed 

 from above, slightly rounded in profile, the upper jaw extending but 

 little beyond lower; nostrils more lateral than superior, moderately 



