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and about the same size as that of third finger; a small but prominent 

 inner metatarsal tubercle and a minute, round outer one; a short, 

 faint tarsal ridge, ending not far behind inner metatarsal tubercle; 

 a distinct skinfold on heel and knee, with a few small tubercles on 

 the heel. Body moderately stout, in postaxillary region almost as 

 wide as greatest width of head. When hind leg is adpressed, heel 

 reaches a point between eye and nostril; when limbs are laid along 

 the sides, knee and elbow overlap; when hind legs are bent at right 

 angles to body, heels touch. Skin of upper parts minutely granular 

 to pustular; a few weak, diagonal glandular ridges above shoulders 

 and on back, and a very faint middorsal line; belly finely granular, 

 throat and chin smooth; a weak glandular ridge from posterior 

 corner of eye above tympanum, ending above and behind tympanum; 

 a slight skinfold across the chest; a ventral disk; a median external 

 vocal sac in the male. 



Dimensions. — Head and body, 34.5 mm.; head length, 13.5 mm.; 

 head width, 13 mm.; femur, 15.5 mm.; tibia, 17 mm.; foot, 14 mm.; 

 hand, 9.5 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum sepia anteriorly to wood brown posteri- 

 orly, with some small clove brown spots above the axilla and groin; side 

 of body pale wood brown to pinkish buff, with small sepia dots ir- 

 regularly scattered from behind axilla to front of groin; venter buff 

 to pinkish buff, the chin, chest and anterior half of belly with many 

 small sepia spots; upper limb surfaces ecru drab to fawn color, with 

 traces of three indistinct darker crossbars on legs and one such cross- 

 bar on forearm; anterior surface of femur pinkish buff, with a row of 

 clove brown spots which become larger towards the knee; posterior 

 femur drab with barely an indication of darker marbling; side of head 

 ecru drab, with two or three rhomboidal dark spots below eye; canthus 

 with a slightly darker line below it; upper lip edged with five or six 

 wide dark spots, and corresponding but paler spots along lower lip; 

 palms of hands and soles of feet ecru drab suffused with faint dusky 

 dots, the disks and tubercles paler. 



Color notes taken on freshly collected specimens (USNM 150796- 

 872). — Belly pale olive buff to pearl gray, most examples with drab 

 to clove brown dots and reticulations on chin, chest, and belly, but 

 some with paler spots anteriorly; a few almost without spots, and 

 others with the chin heavily spotted, a light narrow longitudinal line 

 dividing this area. Back drab gray to mouse gray or slate, often with 

 geranium pink to vinaceous pink suffusions remaining on sides, 

 sacrum, and upper limb surfaces. Three frogs have a sharp pearl-gray 

 rhomb over eyes and occiput; one has a long, light, triangular mark 

 from the eyes, narrowing to the anus ; seven have wide or narrow light 



