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when limbs are laid along the side, knee and elbow overlap distinctly; 

 when hind legs are bent at right angles to body, heels overlap greatly. 

 No patagium. Skin of upper parts glandular but not warty. Parotiod 

 glands present but not pronounced, extending posteriorly nearly to 

 sacrum; skin of throat, chest, belly, and lower femur uniformly 

 granular; a pair of yellowish warts in tandem on pectoral region of 

 chest, a pair on base of each leg near the vent, and a series of five on 

 ventral surface of base of arms; a short series behind the angle of each 

 jaw and well-developed patches of them along sides of body; no 

 trace of a skinfold across chest; vocal sac not apparent. 



Dimensions.— Head and body, 76.5 mm.; head length, 25.9 mm.; 

 head width, 25.2 mm.; femur, 33.3 mm.; tibia, 35.8 mm.; foot, 49.6 

 mm.; hand, 21.9 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Uniform very dark (midnight) blue above, dirty 

 gray below. Slightly mottled on sides of body and limbs where the 

 dorsal and ventral colors meet. The warts on chest and near the vent 

 stand out as clear yellowish marks. 



Remarks. — The series of specimens at hand, including a number of 

 rather fresh topotypes, indicate that this species is rather constant in 

 its characters. Two of the specimens (CNHM 81769-70) are more 

 reddish than the others but this may be due to preservative. The pair 

 of white spots below the vent is conspicuous in all of them. The dorsal 

 and ventral ground colors come together along the sides anterior to 

 the groin with a slight mottling effect but without any development of 

 clear, rounded, white spots the size of the tympanum. 



We are unable to understand why Funkhouser (1957, pp. 47, 48) 

 was so unwilling to commit herself concerning the status of this form 

 as there is a perfectly good type available. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Antioquia: Porcecito, CNHM 63860. 



Meta: Villavicencio, MCZ 11611 (type), CNHM 81769-70, USNM 157261-2, 



MLS (a). 

 Norte de Santander, San Calixto, USNM 118171. 

 Santander: Aratoka, MZUM 54634. 

 No data: MLS 244. 



Phyllomedusa boliviano, Boulenger 



Plate 40g-i 



1902. Phyllomedusa boliviano, Boulenger, p. 395 (type locality, Bolivia, Chulu- 

 mani).— Nieden, 1923, p. 341.— B. Lutz, 1950, p. 602.— Funkhouser, 

 1957, p. 57.— Gorham, 1963, p. 23. 



Diagnosis. — A moderate-sized Phyllomedusa with well-developed 



