FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL — COCHRAN 9 



tympanic swelling; a straight, smooth dorsolateral glandular line from 

 tip of snout to groin; skin of ventral siu-faces smooth, excepting for 

 some postanal glands; no skinfold across the chest. 



Dimensions. — Head and body 30 ram.; head length 10 mm., width 

 9 mm.; femur 14 mm.; tibia 15 mm.; foot 14 mm.; hand 6 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum drab, darkening to sepia on back; on each 

 side a narrow white dorsolateral line beginning at tip of snout extend- 

 ing along canthus, on outer edge of eyelid, above tympanum to groin; 

 between the white dorsolateral Unes arc two series of white spots, 

 about equidistant from each other and from the dorsolateral lines; 

 similar white spots on the drab upper surfaces of the limbs; posterior 

 femur very light ecru drab, anteriorly with coarse cinnamon reticu- 

 lations sm-rounding white spots; ventral surface pale ecru drab, the 

 belly covered with coarse scattered brown spots and reticulations, the 

 throat pale with faint brown mottlings, the lower limb surfaces more 

 or less uTegularly spotted with brown; side of head white below the 

 pale brown lorcal region. 



Remarks. — This species appears to be very rare, according to the 

 collector, Venancio, who found only three examples of it. No eggs or 

 young are known. The adults were found under stones at Lagoa 

 Secca near the Country Club near Bello Horizonte in December. 

 Its voice is very pretty, beginning with a roll, p-r-r-r-, then a soft 

 whistle repeated half a dozen times and very high in pitch. Its color 

 in hfe is distinctive, consisting of white or yellow lateral stripes and 

 golden dorsal spots, while the groin and anterior femur are red. The 

 belly is yellow and white. 



The cotype of D. flavopictus has been compared with ANS 13414, 

 the example of D. hraccatus {D. picta Dumeril and Bibron, fide E. R. 

 Dunn) from Chapada in Mato Grosso, which was identified and dis- 

 cussed by Cope (1887, p. 53). The ANS specimen is 20 mm. long, 

 and the metatarsal and pahnar tubercles are a good deal larger than 

 those of the described specimen, although Dunn thinks this may be 

 due to variation or age change. This smaller specimen has the second 

 finger considerably shorter than the first and a small black spot invades 

 the lower surface of the upper arm, neither of which conditions are 

 present in the cotype oi fiavopictus . Other minor differences are that 

 the tympanum appears smaller, the nostril is nearer the tip of the 

 snout, and the adpressed heel reaches to the center of the eye in the 

 ANS specimen. It is possible that these differences might be found 

 unstable if more specimens from both locahties were available. 



Specimens examined 

 BRAZIL: 



MiNAS Gerais: Bello Horizonte, mountains near, IOC (cotype), A. Lutz. 



