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barely covering the tympanum; a small oval inner metatarsal tubercle 

 and a minute round outer one; no tarsal ridge; a slight skinfold on heel 

 and knee. Body stout, in postaxillary region much narrower than 

 greatest width of head. When hind leg is adpressed, heel reaches to 

 nostril; when limbs are laid along the sides, knee and elbow overlap; 

 when hind legs are bent at right angles to body, heels overlap. Dorsum 

 anteriorly coarsely pustular, with heavy W- and A-shaped glands on 

 back and some unpaired large tubercles on snout and sacral region; 

 posterior part of back, sides, and postanal region coarsely granular; 

 venter, including chin and chest, finely granular; a coarse glandular 

 ridge from posterior corner of eye above tympanum, ending above 

 shoulder, with two coarse tubercles below tympanum; a slight skin- 

 fold across chest; perhaps a weak ventral disk. 



Dimensions. — Head and body, 32 mm.; head length, 12 mm.; head 

 width, 12.5 mm.; femur, 15.5 mm.; tibia, 17.5 mm.; foot, 16.5 mm.; 

 hand, 10.5 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum dull chocolate, with a triangular seal 

 brown patch between the eyes; the large tubercles on snout and the 

 W- and A-shaped rows of glands on back outlined with seal brown; 

 femur and tibia with alternating wide and narrow dark crossbars 

 (three of each) on a drab ground; venter pale wood brown, with 

 coarse drab reticulations on chest, belly, and lower leg surface; sides 

 of body also vermiculated with dark and light markings; posterior 

 femur nearly immaculate wood brown ; anterior femur with extensions 

 of the suprafemoral crossbars; side of head drab, with a dark triangular 

 spot in front of eye on upper lip and another squarish spot beneath 

 eye; palms of hands and soles of feet pale wood brown. 



Notes on color of freshly collected examples (USNM 150762-79, 

 150998-151023).— Belly light drab-gray to pale olive buff, with dark 

 to smoke gray dots and suffusions on lower limbs, especially near 

 knees. Throat and chest mouse-gray, plumbeous or slate with many 

 small round dots of the ground color showing through. Soles and palms 

 slate to drab, the disks a little lighter. Back blackish slate to middle 

 gray, head and occiput with a lighter W of light gray to pearl gray 

 (one juvenile, 150774, has touches of geranium pink on eyelids and 

 along sides); other irregular dark markings on back; a wide light 

 middorsal stripe in three examples; a black stripe from snout along 

 canthus, and narrowed behind eye over tympanum; two wide and 

 two narrow dark spots from eye to upper lip; no light line along 

 upper lip; three wide slate bars on upper leg surfaces separated by 

 pale drab or gray areas ; posterior femur drab gray below, merging into 

 dark crossbars with reticulated slate and white spots; sides similarly 

 spotted. 



