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is sometimes as large as the disk of the third finger (a sexual charac- 

 teristic?), but the supratympanic ridge is always heavily developed. 

 The postoccipital depression may or may not be readily visible — in 

 highly tuberculate frogs it is not easily seen. A wide, light, sharp- 

 edged middorsal band occurs sometimes with almost no other dorsal 

 pattern. The belly is distinctly spotted in all the Cauca frogs. 



Some frogs from 40 kilometers east of Manizales, Caldas (MLS 

 318-320), have a lateral network of dark lines on a light ground 

 instead of diagonal stripes as in the paratype, the Cauca frogs, and 

 in a frog (MLS 182c) from San Pedro, Antioquia. 



Three small frogs (USNM 151985-7) from Paramo del Ruiz on the 

 boundary between Cauca and Valle seem to be young latidiscus 

 because of the wide disks of fingers and toes, the disk of third finger 

 being one and one-half times the diameter of the tympanum; how- 

 ever, the snout seems a little more pointed. More material is needed 

 in order to make positive identification. 



E. R. Dunn has identified specimens from Panama as being of this 

 species. 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 

 Antioquia: Angel6polis, MLS 167; Jeric6, MCZ 24896-7; Medellfn, AMNH 

 1344, 38768, 38774, 38830-1, 38833; Medellin Valley, AMNH 38784, 38787; 

 Sampedro (or San Pedro), north of Medellfn, AMNH 38757, 38759-60, 

 38763-4, CNHM 30565-6, MCZ 24909; Urrao, Santa Barbara, CNHM 

 69718, 69743; 9 km. south of Valdivia, CNHM 63853; Quebrada Valdivia, 

 CNHM 63858; Yarumal, CNHM 63851-2, 63855, 63859, 63873, 82013. 

 Caldas: Montafiita, MLS 365, 372, 398; Santa Rosa de Aso, AMNH 38817. 

 Cauca: Quintana, near Popayan, CNHM 44088; near Moscopan, USNM 



146421. 

 Santander: El Centro, CNMH 81762. 

 Tolima: Quindio Mountains, MCZ 8220-3. 

 Valle: Cisneros, CNHM 44069, 44101; La Victoria, MLS 174. 

 ECUADOR: Cachabe, BM 98.4.28.109 (paratype). 



PANAMA: Chiriquf: Boquete, UMMZ 61093-4, 61095a-b; Cerro Bruja, USNM 

 54022-3; Pirri Range, near head of Rio Lim6n, US MM 50207; Porto Bello, 

 USNM 45573. 



Eleutherodactylus latidiscus tamsitti, new subspecies 



Figure 44 



Holotype — CNHM 69735, an adult from near San Adolf o, 1,400 

 meters, on the Rio Suaza, Acevedo, Huila, Colombia, collected by 

 P. Hershkovitz. 



Diagnosis. — Differs from Eleutherodactylus latidiscus (Boulenger) in 

 having longer toes and fingers and a larger inner metatarsal tubercle; 

 in having the vomerine teeth closer together and nearer the choanae; 



