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Santa Catarina: Joinville, USNM 101453-4, 1930. Lagea, BM 88.2.7.12, 



Michaelis. 

 SIo Paulo: Alto da Serra, MRHN IG 9404 Reg. 38g, Massart, Oct. 6, 1922; 

 USNM 96783, A. Lutz, Jan. 25, 1924; USNM 97774, Cochran and Venancio, 

 Apr. 25, 1935. Boracea, MHNP 50-250 (2) Bokermann, December 1948. 



FRENCH GUIANA: Cayenne, MHNP 389 (type of Hyla leprieurii). 



SURINAM: MHNP 764 (type of H. levaillantii) , Levaillant, 



TRINIDAD: USNM 17772-4. Wayman, 1891. 



VENEZUELA: Caicara, USNM 36376, Cherrie, May 1905. Caracas, USNM 

 55329-30, Rose, October 1916. Caripito, NYZS 30096, 30109, 30205, Beebe, 

 1942. La Guayra, USNM, 22541-4, Robinson, June-July 1895; USNM 

 27791, 27794-5, Lyon and Robinson, July 2-10, 1895. Puerto Ayacucho, 

 USNM 80676-83, Holt, Mar. 7, 1930. San Juan de la Morros, USNM 

 72756, Pittier. 



Hylafaber Wied 



Plate 5, Figures g, h 



1821, Hylafaber Wied, p. 519 (type locality, Fazenda de Agd between Itapemirim 

 and Iriritiba Rivers; St. Agnes, Bahia, and along the coast); 1824a, pi. 

 83, figs. 1, 2; 1825, p. 519.— Peters, 1873a, p. 218.— Boulenqer, 1882a, 

 p. 351; 1885a, p. 196; 1886b, p. 444; 1888c, p. 416.— Boettger, 1892, p. 

 40.— Werner, 1894a, p. 413.— Goeldt, 1895, p. 89, fig. 1.— Berg, 

 1896, pp. 151,211. — Brandes and ScHOENiCHEN, 1901, p. 403, fig. 1. — 

 Gadow, 1901, p. 196.— Wandolleck, 1907, p. 13.— Baumann, 1912, p. 

 99.— L. MtJLLER, 1922, p. 170.— Nieden, 1923, p. 283.— Noble, 1926a, 

 p. 15.— MiRANDA-RiBEiRO, 1926, p. 91, fig. 52, pi. 9, fig. 2.— L. MtJL- 

 LER, 1927, p. 265.— Mertens, 1928, p. 295.— deWitte, 1930a, p. 225. 

 — Nic£foro-Maria, 1930, p. 104.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, pp. Ill, 330. — 

 Myers, 1946, pp. 14,31. 



1824. Hyla geographica semiUneata Spix, p. 40, pi. 11, fig. 2 (type locality, Rio de 

 Janeiro). 



1841. Hyla palmata Dum£ril and Bibron (part), p. 544. — Burmeister, 1856, 

 p. 102. 



1858. Hyla maxima GtJNTHER (part), p. 99. — Reinhardt and LttTKEN, 1862, 

 p. 183.— Hensel, 1867, p. 156. 



Description. — Adult female, USNM 97451, Santa Alexandrina, city 

 of Rio de Janeiro. Vomerine teeth in two very heavy, narrowly sepa- 

 rated,/ \-shaped patches between and behind the posterior bor- 

 ders of the choanae; tongue a little less than two-thirds the width of the 

 mouth-opening, almost circular, with scarcely any indentation on its 

 free posterior border; snout rather elongate, rounded when viewed from 

 above and in profile, the upper jaw scarcely extending beyond the 

 lower; nostrils more superior than lateral, only slightly projecting, 

 their distance from end of snout about one-half that to eye, separated 

 from each other by an mterval equal to shghtly more than one-half 

 their distance from eye. Canthus rostralis blunt but well defined; 

 loreal region concave, sloping greatly. Eye large, very prominent, 

 its diameter two-thirds its distance from end of snout; interorbital 

 diameter about IK times that of upper eyeUd, greater than distance 



