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mens, what little brown pigment is present tends to be concentrated 

 anteriorly on the back and on top of the head. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Valle: Jimenez, BM 1908.5.29.68-9 [1947.2.13.32-3] (cotypes of palmeri). 

 ECUADOR: Sarayacu, BM 80.12.5.230 (cotype of albopunctulata) ; no particular 

 locality, BM 80.12.5.159-62 (cotypes of albopunctulata) . 



9. PUNCTATA group 



Moderately small green tree frogs with small vomerine tooth 

 patches, reduced webbing between the fingers, without spines on the 

 pollex, and without ulnar or tarsal ridges. It is not now known just 

 how many South American species are in this group, but four now 

 known from Colombia may be distinguished with the aid of the key. 



Key to Colombian Species in the punctata Group 



a 1 . Red spots or flecks on the dorsum. 



ft 1 . Dorsal spots minute flecks rather than rounded spots; tympanum about 



two-thirds the diameter of eye H. rubeola 



b 2 . Dorsal spots discrete rounded spots rather than minute flecks; tympanum 



only about three-fifths the diameter of eye H. punctata 



a 2 . Dorsum without distinct red markings. 



b l . Vomerine teeth in two small, rounded patches H. rhodoporus 



b 2 . Vomerine teeth in two somewhat arched series Hyla sp. 



Hyla punctata (Schneider) 



Plate 24d-f 



1799. Calamita punctata Schneider, p. 170 (type locality, "America"). 



1802. Hyla punctata.— Daudin, 1802, p. 41; 1803, p. 81.— Gravenhorst, 1829, 

 p. 30. — Dumeril and Bibron, 1841, p. 552.- — Burmeister, 1856, p. 101. — 

 Gunther, 1858, p. 101; 1872, p. 662.— Peters, 1871, p. 403; 1872a, p. 771; 

 1873a, p. 208.— Boulenger, 1880, p. 48; 1882a, p. 357; 1889, p. 247; 

 1898a, p. 126.— Boettger, 1892, p. 40.— Berg, 1896, p. 207.— Peracca, 

 1904, pp. 13, 37.— Baumann, 1912, p. 163.— Beebe, 1919, p. 207; 1952, 

 p. 174.— Nieden, 1923, p. 307.— Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, p. 88; 1937a, 

 p. 56.— A. Lutz, 1927, p.40— Parker, 1933, p. 4.— Liu, 1935, p. 34.— B. 

 Lutz, 1951a, p. 303.— Goin, 1958, p. 120. — Goin and Layne, 1958, 

 p. 105.— Gorham, 1963, p. 23.— Rivero, 1964a, p. 301. 



1824. Hyla variolosa Spix, p. 37 (type locality, woods along Amazon River). — B. 

 Lutz, 1951a, p. 303. 



1830. Auletris variolosa. — Wagler, 1830, p. 201. 



1830. Scinax variolosa. — Wagler, 1830, p. 201. 



1843. Hypsiboas punctatus— Fitzinger, 1843, p. 30.— Cope, 1867, p. 201; 1871a, 

 p. 554; 1874b, p. 121. 



1922. Hylella pearsei Ruthven, p. 57 (type locality, Colombia, Magdalena, 

 Santa Marta Mts., Fundaci6n). 



1933. Hyla granosa. — Crawford and Jones, 1933, p. 90. 



1941. Hyla granosa gracilis Melin, p. 21. 



