FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL — COCHRAN 77 



tarsus, and a heavy, serrate, glandular fold beginning on the foot, 

 extending along outside of tarsus, crossing the heel at right angles 

 and continuing reduced in size along inside of tibia; a pronounced 

 dermal appendage on heel arising on this glandular fold. Body heavy, 

 not elongate, in postaxillary region about equal to greatest width of 

 head; when hind leg is adpressed, heel reaches to nostril; when limbs 

 are laid along the sides, knee and elbow just touch; when hind legs 

 are bent at right angles to body, heels slightly overlap. Skin of upper 

 parts minutely glandular, the glandules most evident on limbs above 

 tympanum and on posterior part of back, and forming a few faint 

 diagonal ridges on center of back ; a very heavy glandular ridge above 

 and behind tympanum; a pair of heavy, short, serrate glandular 

 ridges below the anus, with a median depression between them, the 

 area around them very glandular; chin and chest faintly granular, 

 belly and lower part of femur heavily granular, with three small 

 tubercles near the glandular postanal ridges; apparently no skinfold 

 across the chest. (A median external vocal sac in the male.) 



Dimensions. — Head and body 61 mm.; head length 20 mm., width 

 22 mm.; femur 29.5 mm.; tibia 31 mm.; foot 27 mm.; hand 18.5 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsal ground color dull cream-buff; an indistinct 

 narrow sepia line beginning on tip of snout, running below the nostrils 

 and the canthus rostralis, continuing on the heavy glandular ridge 

 above the tympanum and fading out on the shoulder; some diagonal 

 sepia spots on upper lip; a series of fine, paired, parallel sepia bars on 

 the sides of the body, the upper parts of the bars merging and forming 

 an indistinct, backward-pointing mark over the sacral hump; a few 

 small irregular sepia blotches on anterior back and on head; limbs 

 with wide dark crossbars above, these dark markings becoming fine 

 and almost hairlike on the anterior and posterior surface of femur; 

 a dark postanal patch; ventral surface immaculate dull cream. 



Variations. — Five adults and a half-gi'own frog from Minas Gerais 

 show a less extensive webbing of the hand than does the described 

 specimen; four of these, including the young frog, have the fingers only 

 one-half webbed, while the two remaining have them two-thirds webbed. 

 The example of H. corticalis Burmeister, ZMB 7490, from Bahia, 

 is like the described specimen, from the State of Rio de Janeiro, in 

 possessing fully webbed fingers. The leg length of H. pardalis is 

 variable, the adpressed heel extending to the nostril in two examples 

 only, to end of snout or beyond it in the others (in the Bahia example 

 of corticalis it reaches considerably beyond). The tympanum of 

 pardalis measures a little over half to almost three-fourths the eye 

 diameter. The snout is usually rather blunt, with eye diameter 

 equalling its distance from end of snout, but sometimes longer. The 



