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these are rather numerous whitish-lavender flecks on the smoother 

 skin above granular region. The margin of palpebral membrane is 

 purple, and this pigmentation extends down a millimeter or two on 

 the membrane itself. Lower eyelid white, lower lip white, a short, 

 indistinct white line behind angle of jaw on each side, a single pectoral 

 white spot, a white blotch at pectoral portion of base of each arm; 

 disks of thumb and first finger white; an indistinct white line along 

 the outer side of hand and lower arm and outer side of foot and tarsus. 

 A white line across each heel and another above vent. A pair of white 

 spots below vent and a couple of indistinct white spots on lower sur- 

 face of each thigh. Dorsal ground color is present on upper arm and 

 extends to disks of third and fourth fingers. It is present on thigh and 

 extends to disks of fourth and fifth toes. Both anterior and posterior 

 faces of thighs are flecked with whitish lavender spots like those along 

 the sides. 



Variation. — The Colombian specimen is very similar to virtual topo- 

 types from Peru. In one of the Peruvian specimens (BM 1908.5.29.45) 

 the flecks are not so well developed, either on the thighs or on the 

 sides, while in a specimen from Pebas the ulnar and tarsal stripes are 

 not so pronounced although they are well developed in the other speci- 

 men from the same locality. The largest specimen, a female from 

 Pebas, has a head-and-body length of 110.5 millimeters. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Cundinamarca: Villeta, 3,500 ft., BM 1902.5.15.25. 

 PERU: Pebas, BM 1908.5.29.45; Chanchamayo, BM 67.9.17.6-7. 



Phyllomedusa edentula Andersson 



Plate 42a-c 



1945. Phyllomedusa edentula Andersson, p. 84 (type locality, Ecuador, Rio 

 Pastaza watershed). — Funkhouser, 1957, p. 43. — Gorham, 1963, p. 23. 



Diagnosis. — A large Phyllomedusa with pigment on tops of the two 

 outer fingers, with the first toe longer than second, and without two 

 rounded white spots below the vent. 



The longer first toe serves to differentiate P. edentula from P. bicolor, 

 which it approaches in size; and the lack of the two white spots below 

 the vent distinguishes it from P. nicejori, which it approaches in 

 general habitus and pattern. 



Description. — CNHM 74906, from Sautata, Choc6, Colombia. 

 Vomerine teeth in two small patches lying not too close together 

 between the large, oblong, horizontally oriented choanae; tongue 

 four-fifths as wide as mouth opening, somewhat triangular in shape, 

 its posterior border extensively free and unnotched. Snout moderate, 



