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clove brown spots becoming larger in groin and also in axilla, where the 

 dark color centers around the large postaxillary gland; venter cinnamon, 

 the belly with many scattered sepia dots; palms of hands and soles of 

 feet wood brown, the subarticnlar tubercles and disks lighter. 



Variations. — The largest paratype (USNM 147013), probably a 

 female, is 25.5 millimeters in head-and-body length. It has a light wood 

 brown spot inside the ( )-shaped postoccipital ridges, an indistinct 

 lighter band across the sacrum, and two or three indistinct diagonal 

 dark bars on the upper surfaces of the limbs. The chin has a few dark 

 spots like those on the belly. The other two paratypes are not fully 

 grown. Their backs are russet. One has a narrow light middorsal line, 

 and the dark edges of the bordering glands are confluent into a pair of 

 wavy longitudinal lines. The sides of the body are sepia, with a dark 

 area more or less apparent around the postaxillary gland in all speci- 

 mens. 



Remarks. — This new frog seems to be most closely related to Eleu- 

 therodactylus curtipes (Boulenger) from Intac, Ecuador. It differs from 

 that species in having a larger tympanum, a smaller eye, and the 

 vomerine teeth more transverse. The length of its snout is l){ times the 

 diameter of eye, and the diameter of its tympanum is one-half the 

 diameter of eye. The large postaxillary gland of this new species does 

 not seem to occur in curtipes. The similarities are more striking than 

 the differences, however, for both species are wide-headed and small- 

 eyed, while their narrow digital disks, heavy bodies, and short legs 

 give them an appearance different from most other members of the 

 genus. With only four known examples, variation cannot be satisfac- 

 torily studied at present. 



This new species is named for its collector, Hno. Niceforo Maria, 

 who, having spent almost a half century studying the natural his- 

 tory of Colombia, may well be called the "dean of Colombian 

 herpetologists." 



Eleutherodactylus elegans (Peters) 



Plate 56g-i 



1863. Liuperus elegans Peters, 1863b, p. 447 (type locality, Bogota' [Cundina- 



marca]. — Boulenger, 1887, p. 29S. 

 1914. Hylodes fuhrmanni Peracca, p. 104 (type locality, Paramo de Cruz Verde, 



3,000-3,600 m., east of Bogota [Cundinamarca]) . 

 1944. Eleutherodactylus elegans. — Dunn, 1944c. p. 510. — Stebbins and Hendrick- 



son, 1959, p. 528.— Gorham, 1963, p. 17. 



Description. — USNM 144776, an adult from Monserrate, Bogota, 

 Cundinamarca, Colombia, collected at 2,800 meters. No bony ridges 

 on top of head; frontoparietal area slightly depressed. Vomerine teeth 

 in two widely separated, small slanting series behind the choanae; 



