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of L. podicipinus petersi was not apparent in the specimens measured. 

 The measurements of head width also overlapped in the two groups. 



The light postfemoral stripe may be present, broken, or absent in 

 both forms. It was present as an unbroken stripe in only one of the 19 

 specimens of L. podicipinus podicipinus but was quite apparent in 33 

 of the 62 specimens of L. p. petersi measured. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Amazonas: Leticia, USNM 142179-86, UF 8537-40. 



Antioquia: Medellin, AMNH 38785, 3880S-15, 39465; Envigado, AMNH 

 39265, 39274, 39281. 



BolIvar: Alto de Quimari, 500 m., Sinii River side, CNHM 61752. 



Boyaca: Muzo, 900 m., CNHM 69744. 



Cundinamarca: Anolaima, near Bogota, AMNH 13471, USNM 147054-5; 

 Sasaima, MLS 235; Beltran, upper Rio Magdalena, USNM 147254; Girardot, 

 USNM 146467. 



Meta: Up from Buenavista, Cordillera Oriental, 1,100 m., USNM 144867- 

 82; Granada on Rio Ariari, south of Villavicencio, USNM 151494; Menegua, 

 east of Puerto Lopez, upper Rio Meta, USNM 147273-4; Villavicencio, CNHM 

 81788-9, MLS 88, 94, 99, 234, USNM 144848-55, 147056-62; 7 km. north- 

 east of Villavicencio, USNM 146382-4. 



Narino: Rio Mataje, USNM 147393-5. 



Norte de Santander: Astillero, USNM 147063; La Selva, USNM 147064-9; 

 Tibu, MLS 200. 



Santander: El Centro, USNM 144838-42; Giron territory, near Lebrija, 

 USNM 144883-8; Lagos de Cacique, 4.7 km. southeast of Bucaramanga, 

 USNM 146250; San Gil, MLS 238, CM 7938. 



Valle: Two km. south of Cali, USNM 148800-23; Virology Field Station, 

 Rio Raposo, USNM 151463. 

 TRINIDAD: Upper Tucker Valley, USNM 119055-60. 



VENEZUELA: Caripito, USNM 117088-9; Merida, USNM 118176; Patare, 

 Miranda, USNM 121147. 



Genus Lithodytes Fitzinger 



1843. Lithodytes Fitzinger, p. 31 (type species, Hylodes lineatus Dumeril and 

 Bibron) . 



Generic diagnosis. — Pupil horizontal. Tongue oval, rounded and 

 free behind. Vomerine teeth present. Tympanum distinct. Fingers 

 and toes free, broadened at the tip, with T-shaped bony terminal 

 phalanges. Web not separating the fourth and fifth toes. Omosternum 

 and sternum with a bony style and a cartilaginous plate. Transverse 

 diapophysis of sacral vertebra weakly broadened. 



Lithodytes lineatus (Schneider) 



Plate 65d-f 



1799. Rana lineata Schneider, p. 138 (type locality not given). — Shaw, 1802> 

 p. 128.— Gravenhorst, 1829, p. 44, pi. 8, fig. 2. 



