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irregular line beginning on the upper lip, continuing below the tym- 

 panum and forking at the shoulders to send one branch partway down 

 the side of the body, and the other to the wrist ; a similar light line on 

 the thigh and two on the tibia; lower parts pale buff, immaculate. 



Dimensions : Tip of snout to vent, 29 mm. ; tip of snout to posterior 

 border of ear, 10 mm.; greatest width of head, 10.5 mm.; hindleg, 

 47 mm.; foreleg, 17 mm.; tibia, 16 mm. 



Variations. — Many variations in color pattern are met with in a large 

 series of males. In many the lines are more brilliant and obvious 

 than in the described specimen; in others they are scarcely visible. 

 The upper lip sometimes has a curved line running upward behind the 

 nostrils and downward before the eye, with another sinuous curve in 

 the region between eye and ear. The females show very indistinct 

 traces of the original pattern. They are larger than the males, reach- 

 ing about 38 mm. in length, while males do not exceed 32 mm. 

 The tibiotarsal articulation does not reach beyond the tip of the snout 

 in some cases. 



Specimens examined. — As listed in table 5. 



Table 5. — Specimens of Hyla pulchrilineata examined 



HYLA VASTA Cope 



Figure 5 



1871. Hyla vasta Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1871, p. 219. — 

 Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the collection of the 

 British Museum, ed. 2, p. 351, 1882. — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 44, No. 2, p. 238, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 73, 1930; vol. 19, 

 No. 3, p. 89, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 94, 1937 — 

 Noble, Nat. Hist., vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 104-117, 1923; Amer. Mus. Nov., 

 No. 165, pp. 10-11, 1925; Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 30, pp. 95-100, 

 fig. 23b, pi. 9, fig. B (tadpole), 1927. — Nieden, Das Tierreich, Anura I, 

 p. 312, 1923.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 3, 1924 — 

 Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, p. 333, 1938; Publ. Inst. Cient. 

 Domhiico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 84, 1939. — Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico- 

 Aleman, vol. 1, p. 16, 1939. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 65757, an adult male from Liali, 

 Dominican Republic, collected on February 9, 1923, by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Tongue broader than long, slightly emarginate behind; 



