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proximal end and one on the distal end — and a tiny daub on the heel. 

 Thus, the top of the shank is not completely covered by a daub as it 

 is in leucophyllata, and it is not dark as it is in bijurca. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Amazon as: Leticia, UF 8525 (3), 8526 (2), 8527 (2). 



Antioquia: Rfo Sucio, CNHM 82014. 



Caqueta: Florencia, MLS 35b, USNM 152064-5. Ceilan, west of Florencia, 



MLS 225-6. 

 Cundinamarca: Mountains of Medina, northwest of Villa vicencio, MCZ 



16273-4. 

 No exact locality: Rfo Putumayo, USNM 152283; no data, MLS 292. 

 BRAZIL: Acre, WCAB 1262; Amazonas, MCZ 2030; Bonita, Pernambuco, 



MCZ 2824 (7) ; Manquinhos, D. F., MCZ 17598. 

 ECUADOR: Napo-Pastaza: Two km. west of Puerto Napo, JAP 2638; south 

 bank Rio Napo, 465 m., JAP 2697, 2745-6; one km. northeast of Tena, 

 JAP 2726. 

 PERU: Ambyiaca River, MCZ 4477. 

 SURINAME: MHNP 4868 (type of H . frontalis) . 



Hyla ebraccata Cope 



Plate 37a-c 



1874. Hyla ebraccata Cope, 1874a, p. 69 (type locality, Nicaragua). — Brocchi, 

 1881, p. 44.— Taylor and Smith, 1945, p. 587.— Taylor, 1952, p. 885 — 

 Langebartel and Smith 1959, p. 27. — Duellman,1960, p. 40. — Fouquette, 

 1960c, p. 486. 



1942. Hyla leucophyllata.— Taylor, 1942, p. 30. 



Diagnosis. — A member of the leucophyllata group with a white 

 margin on the upper lip just below the eye. 



Hyla ebraccata is most similar to H. leucophyllata, from which it 

 may be distinguished by having a conspicuous white margin on the 

 upper lip just below the eye and the fact that the dorsal dark blotch, 

 if present, is usually constricted in the middle (and thus dumb-bell 

 shaped) rather than gradually tapering posteriorly as in leucophyllata. 



Description. — CJG 2369, from Rio Manso, C<5rdoba, Colombia. 

 Vomerine teeth in two widely spaced, rounded series, lying between 

 the small, rounded choanae; tongue two-thirds as wide as mouth 

 opening, broadly rounded, its posterior border slightly free and 

 shallowly notched. Snout rounded when viewed from above, slightly 

 rounded in profile, the upper jaw extending but little beyond lower; 

 nostrils more lateral than superior and as anterior as lateral, slightly 

 projecting, their distance from end of snout about one-half that from 

 eye, separated from each other by an interval nearly equal to their 

 distance from eye. Can thus rostralis rather well defined; loreal region 

 nearly flat and nearly vertical, the upper lip not flaring out below it. 

 Eye moderate, not prominent, its diameter equal to its distance from 



