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dorsum smooth. Fingers and toes without disks; fingers moderately 

 slender, entirely free of webs; toes moderately slender, slightly 

 webbed at base; fingers 3-1-4-2 and toes 4-3-5-2-1 in order of 

 decreasing length; heels in contact when legs are flexed with femora 

 held at right angles to body; throat and venter smooth, underside of 

 thigh somewhat rugose. Knees and elbows scarcely meeting when legs 

 are pressed along the side of the body; heel not reaching posterior 

 border of tympanum when hind leg is adpressed. 



Coloration. — Ground color above dark tan, top of head and dorsum 

 mottled with a pale brown; top of thigh and crus somewhat paler in 

 ground color than the dorsum, top of thigh with a median dorsal patch 

 of the brown, and crus with two bands of similar brown color. Under- 

 side of chin, venter, and legs immaculate. A pair of chocolate brown 

 glandular areas present, one on each side just anterior to thighs and 

 lateral to ilium; these areas (4 by 6 nfm.) are over slight rounded 

 elevations. 



Dimensions in millimeters. — Snout to vent, 44; head width, 16; tip 

 of snout to posterior edge of tympanum, 13; diameter of eye, 4; diam- 

 eter of tympanum, 2; vent to tip of longest toe, 54; vent to heel, 31. 



Variations. — Except for the immature specimen (ANSP 2261), the 

 syn types are very similar. In the two males the skin on underside of 

 the throat is darker and more folded than in the two females. The im- 

 mature specimen is smaller (snout-vent, 30 mm.) and somewhat more 

 faded than the adults. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Atlantico: BarranquMa, USNM 150988-91, CM 33390 (8), UF 7971, 

 USNM 152642; Rio Cesar, USNM 117514; Rio Magdalena, USNM 144909, 

 ANSP 2260-4 (syntypes). 

 Bolivar: Villanueva, USNM 117512; Cartagena, Barrio Naval, CNHM 74916; 



Sincelejo, USNM 144906-8. 

 Guajira: One mile south of Manaure, Pajaro, USNM 151307-24; Piojo, 100 m., 



USNM 152678-87. 

 Magdalena: Cienaga, USNM 144161-2; Curumani, MCZ 21495-8; Finca El 

 Aramar, Bonda, USNM 152713-4; Santa Marta, MCZ 6074. 

 CURACAO: Landhuis Knip, USNM 118654-5. 

 PANAMA: Herrera: Parita, USNM 127251-2. 



VENEZUELA: Sierra de Santa Ana, Falcon, USNM 117525, 128841-4; Palenque, 

 Guarico, USNM 128840; Campo de Lago, Lagunillas, USNM 115757-8; Los 

 Aniles, Margarita Island, USNM 139069. 



Pleurodema sagittifer (O. Schmidt) 



Plate 66d-f 



1857. Leiuperus sagittifer O. Schmidt, p. 10 (type locality, New Granada); 1858, 



p. 240.— Garman, 1876, p. 278. 

 1882. Paludicola sagittifera. — Boulenger, 1882a, p. 236. 

 1923. Paludicola sagittifer.— Nieden, 1923, p. 512. 



