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Remarks. — In the series at hand, the heel may reach the nostril, 

 the tip of the snout, or well beyond the tip of the snout. No heel 

 tubercle is present, although sometimes a small ridge occupies its 

 usual position. The femur, tibia, and foot seem to be significantly 

 longer in E. carmelitae than in the other Colombian eleutherodactyli 

 having granular bellies, with the exception of E. megalops. The belly 

 may be finely to weakly granular, transversely ridged, or nearly 

 smooth in the smaller examples. The toes have no definite webs. The 

 very small tympanum appears to be sunken in most adults. 



Specimen MZUM 54530 (presumably a paratype of carmelitae from 

 San Lorenzo, Magdalena) has a smooth belly and back, longer legs, 

 somewhat smaller disks, and other features not in agreement with 

 the described specimen (MCZ 8979). 



Specimens Examined 

 COLOMBIA 



Magdalena: Cincinnati, MZUM 51110; Quebrada de la Dante, MZUM 

 25432-4 (paratypes) ; Quebrada Viernes Santo, MZUM 54527 (paratype) ; 

 Rfo Frio, MCZ 16071-2; San Lorenzo, MZUM 54530 (paratype); Santa 

 Marta Mountains, MCZ 8979; Finca La Granja, USNM 150762-79, 150998- 

 151023. 



Eleutherodactylus taeniatus (Boulenger) 



Plate 46a-c 



1912. Hylodes taeniatus Boulenger, p. 188 (type locality, Noananoa [Noanama], 



Rio San Juan, Choc6, Colombia). — Nieden, 1923, p. 441. 

 1963. Eleutherodactylus taeniatus. — Gorham, 1963, p. 18. 



No fresh examples identifiable as E. taeniatus have been received, 

 but since it may be a valid form the original description and recent 

 photographs of the type are included here. 



Boulenger (1912, p. 188) described the type as follows: 



Tongue oval, nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in two oblique oval groups behind 

 the level of the choanae. Snout rounded, as long as orbit, with strong, nearly 

 straight can thus and oblique, concave loreal region; nostril near the tip of the 

 snout; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, one- 

 third the diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes rather short, the tips dilated into 

 large, broad disks; first finger not extending as far as second; a slight rudiment 

 of web between the toes; subarticular tubercles well developed; a small oval inner 

 and a very small rounded outer metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches the tip of the snout; tibia nearly two-thirds the length of head and body. 

 Skin smooth, the belly very indistinctly granulate. Brown above, darker on the 

 sides; a blackish, light-edged streak on each side of the back, from the eye to above 

 the groin, gradually converging towards its fellow; a dark brown streak, with a 

 fine median line (light), from the tip of the snout to the sacral region; a dark 

 streak from the upper eyelid to the scapular region; a can thai streak and two 



