CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIA OF MEXICO 75 



ACRODYTES SPILOMMA (Cope) 



Hyla lichenosa GtJnther, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the collection 

 of the British Museum, 1858, pp. 102-103, pi. 8, fig. C (part only: the cotypea 

 from "Veracruz," "C6rdoba," and "Mexico," seven specimens, all in Brit. 

 Mus.; name restricted by Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia 

 s. Ecaiulata in the collection of the British Museum, 1882, p. 364, to the 

 other cotypes, from "South America," "Amazons," and "America" 32). 



Hyla spilomma Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. 17, 1877, p. 86. — Taylor and 

 Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 95, 1945, pp. 593-594, pi. 27, fig. 1. 



Hyla nigropunctala Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the 

 collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, 1882, p. 366 (cotypes, Brit. Mus 

 Nos. 81.10.31.20, 59.9.20.2, Jalapa, Veracruz). 



Hyla venulosa Kellogg {nee Laurenti), U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 160, 1932, pp 154- 

 155, 176-179, figs. 19c, 20d. 



Type.—Losi. {Fide Kellogg.) 



Type locality. — Cosomaloapam, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Range. — From Tamaulipas to Chiapas and perhaps Central Amer- 

 ica. The species has been reported (as Tlyla venulosa) from Tamauli- 

 pas: Tampico; San Luis Pofosi: Rio Coy (near Pujal), Tamiizunchale ; 

 Veracruz: San Juan de la Punta, Cuautlapan, Tezonapa, Misantla, 

 Jalapa, Veracruz, Cdrdoba, Panuco, Cerro de Gallo, Tierra Colorada; 

 Campeche: Champot6n, Tres Brazos, Becdn; Chiapas: Cruz de Picdra 

 (near Acacoyagua); Tabasco: Frontera; Oaxaca: Tuxtepec; Yucatan: 

 Chichen Itzd. 



Genus SMILISCA Cope 



Smilisca Cope, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, 1865, p. 194. 



Genotype. — Smilisca daulinia Cope=Hyla haudinii Dum^ril and 

 Bibron.^^ 



Range. — Southern Texas and Sonora to Honduras, 

 Species. — One, with an indefinite number of subspecies. 



SMILISCA BAUDINII BAUDINII (Dumfiril and Bibron) 



Hyla haudinii Dumeril and Bibron, Erp^tologie g^n^rale, vol. 8, 1841, pp. 564- 

 565.— Kellogg, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 160, 1932, pp. 155, 160-163, figs. Ic, 

 19c, 20c. 



3» Kellogg (loc. cit.) mentions and describes the Mexican types and indicates that these were the only ones, 

 following an ambiguity in Boulenger's treatment, which (op. cit., p. 366) clearly designates the Mexican 

 specimens "types" of Oiinther's lichenosa. Boulenger obviously did not imply that these were the only 

 "types" (he did not select a single specimen as "the" type), and in fact indicated that there were others by 

 quoting "Hyla lichenosa, part" in the synonymy of both Hyla venulosa and Hyla nigropunctata, and by allo- 

 cating Gunther's name with venulosa while naming certain ones of the cotypes as nigropunctata. Unfor- 

 tunately he failed to designate clearly the types of lichenosa which he referred to venulosa, although some 

 may be listed. To avoid further ambiguity we hereby designate as lectotype the adult male from the 

 "Amazons," which is listed by Gunther as a cotype (op. cU., p. 102) and may be specimen 1 listed by 

 Boulenger (op. cit., p. 365). 



" Pecularities in the skull of this species, combined with the paired vocal sacs, cause us to consider this 

 form as a representative of a genus apart from //j//a. 



