506 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 288 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Boyaca: Guaicaramo, USNM 152098-9. 



Cauca: Moscopan, MZUM 121033 (5); near Purace\ USNM 151930-7. 



NARiffo: Guaitarilla, CNHM 54720-2. 



Vaup£s(?): Lower Rio Apaporis, FM 89 (2). 

 ECUADOR: Cinincay, AMNH 17464; Imbabura, MZUM 83652, 83654; Llave 



Pongo, AMNH 20141; Paramo, AMNH 20504; Rio Zamora, Sabanilla, AMNH 



13530. 

 VENEZUELA: Culata, BM 1905.5.31.89-92; Escorial, BM 1903.10.30.24, 1905.- 



5.31.94; Mfrida, BM 1905.5.3.93, MCZ 2526. 



Centrolenella parabambae (Boulenger) 



Figure 51 



1898. Hyla parabambae Boulenger, 1898a, p. 125 (type locality, Paramba, 



northwestern Ecuador). — Nieden, 1923, p. 265. 

 1920. Centrolenella parambae.— Noble, 1920, p. 442; 1926a, p. 17.— Goin, 1964, 



p. 6. 

 1952. Centrolenella parabambae. — Lutz and Kloss, 1952, p. 662. 

 1951. Cochranella parambae. — Taylor, 1951, p. 35. 

 1961. Cochranella parabambae. — Goin, 1961, p. 102. 

 1963. Centrolene parabambae. — Gorham, 1963, p. 24. 



Diagnosis. — A centrolenid with vomerine teeth in transverse series 

 between the choanae, without well-developed humeral spines and 

 with the dorsal ground color fading gradually into the ventral pale 

 color. 



This species can be distinguished from all Colombian centrolenids 

 except Centrolene geckoideum, Centrolenella grandisonae, and C. 

 medemi by the presence of vomerine teeth. From Centrolene geckoideum 

 it may be distinguished by the lack of prominent humeral spines and 

 by the relatively larger eyes (the disk of third finger does not cover 

 them). From the latter two species it differs by the lack of definitive 

 light spots on the back. 



Description.— CNHM 81362, from Pico Renjifo, 1,500 m., Serranfa 

 de La Macarena, Meta, Colombia. Vomerine teeth in two short, 

 transverse series, lying between the moderate-sized, rounded choanae; 

 tongue two-thirds as wide as mouth opening, broadly cordiform, its 

 posterior border slightly free and very shallowly notched. Snout 

 moderate, broadly U-shaped when viewed from above, truncate in 

 profile, the upper jaw extending but slightly beyond lower; nostrils 

 more lateral than superior, slightly projecting, their distance from end 

 of snout about equal to their distance from eye, separated from each 

 other by an interval equal to about their distance from eye. Canthus 

 rostralis fairly well defined; loreal region concave and rather oblique, 

 the upper lip flaring out below it. Eye moderate, rather prominent, its 

 diameter equal to its distance from nostril; palpebral membrane not 



