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in South America, and no less than eight of these are known from 

 Colombia. 



Key to Colombian Species in the leucophyllata Group 



a 1 . Dorsal surface dark with a pattern of light gray or silvery white (in life) 

 light marks. 

 b 1 . Definitive vomerine teeth. 



c 1 . Upper lip below eye not distinctly margined with white. .H. leucophyllata 



c 2 . Upper lip below eye distinctly margined with white H. ebraccata 



6 2 . No definitive vomerine teeth, or if present, tiny, inconspicuous, and not 



well developed. 



c 1 . A distinct pah of supraocular light spots or such spots fused to form an 



interocular bar, but rest of top of head not light; dorsolateral light 



marks restricted to a row of light dots or at most a narrow broken 



stripe H. rossalleni 



c 2 . A light triangular area covering top of head; rather distinct dorsolateral 

 light stripes extending for one-third to one-half the distance to groin 



along the sides of body H. sarayacuensis 



a 2 . Dorsal surface plain or with a distinct pattern but without a pattern of silvery 

 white or gray marks. 

 b 1 . Dorsal pattern obsolete or (in life) made up of bright gold spots. 



c 1 . A rather distinct dark brown facial stripe on side of head and loreal 

 region, extending posteriorly through eye and tympanum to taper 

 out along the side; dorsum uniform brownish yellow in life. 



H. membranacea 

 c 2 . No dark brown stripe on side of face; dorsum with bright gold spots 



in life H. oliveae 



b 2 . Dorsal pattern conspicuous. 



c 1 . Dorsal pattern of thickly scattered dark spots, sometimes so thickly 

 placed that the light areas between them form a network of fine lines 



in a reticulate light pattern H. reticulata 



c a . Dorsal pattern of dark spots restricted to one or two rows down to middle 

 of back and others, more thickly placed, on top of arms and legs. 



H. Iaynei 



Hyla leucophyllata (Beireis) 



Figure 31 



1783. Rana leucophyllata Beireis, p. 182, pi. 11, fig. 4 (type locality, Surinam). — 

 Bonnaterre, 1789, p. 2, pi. 4, fig. 4.— Shaw, 1802, p. 127. 



1789. Rana leucophylla. — Gmelin, 1789, p. 1055. 



1789. Rana variegata Bonnaterre, p. 8 (type locality, unknown). 



1799. Calamita leucophyllata. — Schneider, 1799, p. 168. 



1802. Hyla frontalis Daudin, p. 17, pi. 7, fig. 1 (type locality, Suriname) ; 1803, 

 p. 45. 



1820. Calamita leucophyllatus. — Merrem, 1820, p. 173. 



1824. Hyla elegans Wied, p. 671 (type locality, Ponte de Gentio on Rfo Al- 

 cobaca); 1824, pi. 85, fig. 1; 1925, p. 529. 



1829. Hyla leucophyllata. — Gravenhorst, 1829, p. 31. — Dumeril and Bibron, 

 1841, p. 607.— Gunther 1858, p. 112; 1901, p. 277.— Steindachner, 

 1864, p. 243.— Cope, 1868, p. Ill; 1870, p. 156; 1871b, p. 222; 1874b, 



