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upper edge of lateral gland bordered with pearl gray, the remainder 

 of gland black; inguinal and prefemoral region just below the gland 

 salmon-buff, this color ending abruptly on sides just anterior to the 

 gland and covering the proximal half of anterior femur, which is 

 immaculate; rest of sides and most of venter olive-buff to cream 

 buff; posterior part of throat (of male) suffused with slate gray; 

 distal half of anterior femur suffused with sepia, concentrated to 

 one wide crossbar and two or three narrower, less-distinct crossbars 

 on upper surface; posterior femur and adjoining half of tibia vina- 

 ceous pink to salmon buff, immaculate except for a suffusion of slate 

 under the knee, and a black spot at lower posterior end of wide bar 

 on upper femur; remainder of upper leg and foot surfaces with in- 

 distinct mouse gray crossbars on a slightly paler background; arms 

 cream buff, with a few light gray spots and bars; soles of feet and 

 lower tarsus mouse gray, the metatarsal and metacarpal tubercles 

 cream-buff; palms of hands also cream-buff; sides of head drab gray, 

 with a wide vertical slate spot below eye and another below nostril; 

 center of snout tip with a pale olive vertical line. 



Remarks. — The above-described male is remarkably similar to 

 Craspedoglossa stejnegeri (from the Organ Mountains, Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil) in external characters, both having short heads with swollen 

 temporal regions, heavy shovel-like metatarsal tubercles, and large 

 lateral glands. C. stejnegeri, however, has a well-developed set of 

 vomerine teeth; the lateral gland is lower on the body, being concealed 

 when the hind legs are in sitting position; the toes are somewhat 

 longer than those of Pleurodema sagittifer; and the terminal phalanges 

 are knob-like instead of claw-shaped as in sagittifer. 



Pleurodema sagittifer was buried in the synonymy of P. marmorata 

 until Parker (1927b, p. 467), revived it in his discussion of the genus. 

 The two species are alike in possessing a lumbar gland, but in sagittifer 

 the interorbital space is narrower than the upper eyelid and the eyes 

 are unusually prominent, while in marorata the interorbital space is 

 as broad as the upper eyelid and the eyes are not more prominent 

 than is usual in frogs. These two species are widely separated by 

 almost the entire mountain system of Colombia; in fact, we do not 

 know of any examples of marmorta collected north of Peru. 



The described specimen (USNM 144910, from Barranquilla, 

 Atlantico), was the only example of this species examined. 



Genus Pseudopaludicola Miranda -Ribeiro 



1926. Pseudopaludicola Miranda- Ribeiro, p. 152 (type species, Liuperus falcipes 

 Hensel) . 



Generic diagnosis. — Pupil horizontal. Tongue oval, entire, free be- 

 hind. Vomerine teeth present. Fingers free; toes slightly webbed, 



