FROGS OF COLOMBIA — COCHRAN AND COIN 143 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum clove brown, almost black, with a cin- 

 namon stripe beginning at tip of snout, continuing along can thus, on 

 upper eyelid, on postocular ridge and along side of body to groin, its 

 borders irregular on the body; a cinnamon line along the back from 

 nuchal region onto the sacrum; side of head clove brown with an 

 elongate cinnamon spot on upper lip in front of eye and a larger 

 round spot below tympanum; sides of body clove brown above, 

 lightening to vandyke brown below, rather sharply set off from the 

 paler ventral color; venter buff, immaculate on belly, with a large 

 chevron-shaped russet patch covering most of chin and dying out on 

 chest; upper limb surfaces clove brown to black, with some cinnamon 

 spots especially prominent on upper arm; anterior femur with an ir- 

 regular ecru drab stripe edged below by a vandyke brown stripe 

 continued from side of body; posterior femur with alternating dark 

 and light squarish spots; soles of feet and palms of hands deep brown 

 to black on outer toes, lightening to wood brown below inner digits 

 and on their tips. 



Remarks. — The other specimen from Cisneros, Valle (CNHM 43851, 

 a female distended with eggs) is lighter in color than the male (CNHM 

 43850) , being wood brown above and on the sides, with a coarse sepia 

 X-mark from the upper eyelids to a point well behind the level of the 

 axillae. The venter is olive-buff. The throat and chest have a clay- 

 colored outline of a "chevron" consisting of an irregular median line 

 from tip of chin to breast, with other spots in an irregular ( ) -shaped 

 arrangement on each side. Markings on the limbs are clouded and 

 indistinct. 



The first finger is more distinct in the female, but this is due to the 

 swelling of that digit in the male. The first and second fingers in both 

 male and female are much broader and have wider tips than the third 

 and fourth fingers. No external vocal sacs apparent in the male, but 

 inner finger enlarged. 



As Rivero (1963c, p. 112) has remarked, these examples "more or 

 less agree" with Cope's original description. They are so badly stiffened 

 and mutilated that Cope's statements as to the extension of the fore 

 and hind limbs, backward and forward, cannot be checked. The faint 

 tarsal fold mentioned by Cope apparently exists in CNHM 43851 as a 

 thin ridge of skin, but the ridge on this shrunken and dried specimen 

 may be much stronger than the ridge on fresher material. 



Specimens Examined 



COLOMBIA 

 Valle: Cisneros, 100 m., CNHM 43850-1. 



Santander: Hacienda Barrancas, Quebrada La Lechera, tributary of Rio 

 Op6n, Velez, 900 m., USNM 144937-40 (tentatively identified). 



