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The specimens from the Amazon drainage in Meta do not seem 

 to be different in any significant manner from the other Colombian 

 specimens. 



A detailed comparison between boulengeri and foliamorta is given 

 under the discussion of the latter species. 



Specimens Examined 



COLOMBIA 



Choc6: Andagoya, CNHM 81854-5. 



C6rdoba: Rio Manso, CJG 2431. 



Cttndinamarca: Caparappf, MLS 118. 



Meta: Mouth of Cailo Losada, USNM 152186-8; Villavicencio, MLS 70, 

 70a. 



Norte de Santander: La Selva, MLS 211. 



Putumayo: Puerto Asfs, USNM 152278. 



Santander: Simitarra, Rio Guayabito, USNM 152285. 



Tolima: Maraquita, CNHM 81824-5. 



Vaupes: Rio Piraboton, CNHM 82008. 

 NICARAGUA: USNM 13974 (type). 



Hyla foliamorta Fouquette 



Plate 32a-c 



1958. Hyla foliamorta Fouquette, p. 125 (type locality, seven mi. northwest 

 of Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal Zone). 



Diagnosis. — A rather large frog of the rubra group with broad, 

 vertical dark bars on the posterior face of the thigh and with generally 

 a dark chin and throat and with the ventral surface of the rostrum 

 rather dark. 



H. foliomarta can be separated from H. rubra by having the dark 

 markings on the posterior faces of the thighs in the form of broad, 

 vertical bars rather than vermiculations. From H. boulengeri, to 

 which it is very closely related, it may be differentiated by the dark 

 throat and chin and the dark underside of the rostrum (see "Remarks" 

 for a detailed comparison). 



Description. — USNM 127865, from El Real, Antioquia, Colombia. 

 Vomerine teeth in two short, slightly V-shaped series, lying close 

 together between the moderate-sized, oblong choanae; tongue two- 

 thirds as wide as mouth opening, broadly rounded, its posterior 

 border very slightly free and unnotched. Snout long, pointed when 

 viewed from above, pointed in profile, the upper jaw extending 

 considerably beyond lower; nostrils more lateral than superior, con- 

 siderably projecting, their distance from end of snout about one- third 

 that from eye, separated from each other by an interval equal to 

 about one-half their distance from eye. Can thus rostralis slightly 

 defined; loreal region not concave but very oblique, the upper lip 



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