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Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 8, 1921.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 3, 1924; Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 



8, p. 164, 1934. 

 1841. Trachycephalus dominicensis DumIsril and Bibron, Erpetologie gen£rale, 



p. 540. — Gunther, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the collection of 



the British Museum, p. 118, 1858 (part). 

 1863. Trachycephalus ovatus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, 



p. 44. 

 1882. Hyla ovata Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the col- 

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 1892. H. (T.) ovata Muller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 200 — 



Meerwarth, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, p. 40, 1901. — Barbour 



and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 351, 1929. 

 1882. Hyla septentrionalis Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in 



the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, p. 369 (part). 



1937. Hyla septentrionalis dominicensis Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

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1938. Hyla dominicensis dominicensis Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, No. 5, 

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 Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico-Alem&n, vol. 1, p. 16, 1939. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 66670, an adult female from Laguna, 

 Samana' Peninsula, Dominican Republic, collected on December 11, 

 1923, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Tongue broader than long, slightly 

 emarginate behind; vomerine teeth in two short, heavy, almost 

 contiguous series between the choanae; head slightly broader than 

 long; nostrils near the tip of the snout, their distance from each other 

 two-thirds as great as their distance from the eye; snout rounded in 

 profile and when viewed from above; interorbital width three times 

 the diameter of the upper eyelid; derm of head completely ossified 

 (in the adult); canthus rostralis sharp and projecting, the loreal 

 region deeply concave; upper lip slightly projecting; tympanum sepa- 

 rated from the eye by one-third its own diameter, very distinct below, 

 its upper border hidden by a heavy glandular fold, which emanates 

 from the posterior corner of the eyelid and fades out shortly behind 

 the level of the armpits; the hindlimb being adpressed, the tibiotarsal 

 articulation reaches the end of the snout; digits with large disks, 

 those of the fingers larger than the tympanum, those of the toes 

 equaling it; fingers one-fourth webbed, toes three-fourths webbed. 

 Skin fairly smooth above, with small glandules here and there on the 

 back and sides; lower surfaces very coarsely granular; no tarsal fold. 



Color (in alcohol) : Upper parts drab to fawn color, with a very 

 irregular coarsely reticulated pattern of chocolate on the back center- 

 ing about a poorly defined ) (-shaped marking extending from the 

 posterior eyelids to behind the shoulders, with other large irregular 

 blotches following it; limbs with traces of dark cross bars and many 

 irregular dark blotches; posterior borders of upper and lower lips with 

 several dark spots; under parts immaculate olive-buff, the throat 

 faintly suffused with fawn color. 



