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based were small, poorly preserved specimens that are not conspecific 

 with either H. ruiitela of Panama or H. albomarginata of eastern South 

 America, as defined by him. Re-examination of the specimens men- 

 tioned above convinces us that they should not be identified as 

 albomarginata and that the only unquestioned Colombian record is the 

 specimen described above from Boyaca. 



There seems little doubt that albopunctulata is a representative of 

 this group west of the Andes, rufitela a representative in Panama, and 

 albomarginata a representative east of the Andes. The specimen de- 

 scribed above differs from the examples from eastern Brazil in the 

 amount of webbing on the hands and amount of dorsal pigmentation, 

 and it may be that when adequate material becomes available it will 

 prove to be distinct from albomarginata. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Boyaca: Zetaquira, near Miraflores, CJG 235.4 

 BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, D. F., MZUM 104143 (10), 104144 (2), 104145; 

 Rio de Janeiro, Barro Branco, MZUM 104146 (3). 



Hyla albopunctulata Boulenger 



Plate 29d,e 



1882. Hyla albopunctulata Boulenger, 1882a, p. 385 (type locality, Ecuador, 

 Sarayacu).— Nieden, 1923, p. 271.— Gorham, 1963, p. 21. 



1908. Hyla palmeri Boulenger, p. 515 (type locality, southwestern Colombia, 

 Jimenez).— Nieden, 1923, p. 264.— Gorham, 1963, p. 21.— Rivero, 

 1964a, p. 303. 



Diagnosis. — A moderate-sized, somewhat granular Hyla charac- 

 terized by having ulnar and tarsal folds along the arms and feet 

 respectively, a wavy glandular fold over the vent, and a short trans- 

 verse vomerine series lying slightly behind the small rounded choanae. 

 Perhaps it is most closely allied to Hyla albomarginata, from which it 

 differs by its smaller tympanum and smaller vomerine teeth. 



Description.— BM 1908.5.29.68 [1947.2.13.32] (a cotype of palmeri), 

 from Jimenez, Valle, Colombia. Vomerine teeth in two small, trans- 

 verse series lying close together and just behind a line connecting 

 posterior margins of the small, rounded choanae; tongue two-thirds 

 as wide as mouth opening, broadly cordiform, wider than long, its 

 posterior border fused and very shallowly notched; snout moderate, 

 somewhat rounded when viewed from above, truncate in profile, the 

 upper jaw extending slightly beyond lower; nostril more lateral than 

 superior, slightly projecting, their distance from end of snout about 

 one-half that from eye, separated from each other by an interval about 

 equal to their distance from eye. Can thus rostralis slightly defined; 

 loreal region slightly concave and somewhat oblique, the upper lip 



