FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL — COCHRAN 173 



white dorsolateral line from above tympanum nearly to groin, and a 

 similar line along outer forearm and tibia; posterior femur buff with 

 7 or 8 short vertical sepia spots becoming fainter proximally; anterior 

 femur buff with a fine powdering of sepia dots; skin of chest and throat 

 olive-gray, the large granules white; posterior half of belly and lower 

 surfaces of hind legs deep buff; upper surfaces of hands and feet olive 

 gray, their lower surfaces buff powdered with sepia dots. 



Remarks. — Regarding Hyla prasina, Dr. B. Lutz has sent the 

 following notes: "On Sunday the 15th, a trip to the edge of the marshy 

 ground where clay is extracted for bricks produced a veritable chorus 

 of Hyla polytaenia, pardalis, nebulosa, Phyllomedusa rohdei, Cera- 

 tophrys boiei, Bufo, ct cetera. Some were caught. Joaquim [Venancio] 

 heard a new note, which later I also got on coming closer, Carard, 

 carard, rough and loud. We finally located the sound in a deep clay 

 pool. I thought it came from a small island; Joaquim, from the other 

 side of a narrow causeway. He climbed the crumbling bank while I 

 stayed below and illuminated the spot on which he was working. 

 Suddenly I saw a big frog leap at him. He caught it, and afterwards 

 said it was lucky the frog did launch itself at him, for otherwise it 

 would have been out of reach. The creature was very beautiful — 

 deep green like enamel, with a golden line running along the sides of 

 back and the same line on forearm and foreleg. It is evidently Hyla 

 prasina, which Burmeister described from Friburgo and which has 

 been considered a doubtful species. I still have it with me. It is 

 big and fat and gobbles the grasshoppers I give it, but has become a 

 grayish tan. The golden line is stiU visible, sometimes stronger, 

 sometimes weaker in color, never silver, perhaps slightly mother-of- 

 pearl, as Burmeister describes it . . . Iris golden, broad." A letter 

 dated February 15 notes that the specimen "has turned slate-gray 

 with a vestige of white where the golden stripe was, just like the 

 Hyla raddiana specimens we have [from Argentina]." 



In 1938 this specimen was shoAvn to Dr. Lorenz Miiller, who pro- 

 nounced it the same as the type of Hyla prasina which he had seen 

 at Gottingen. 



Specimen examined 

 BRAZIL: 



Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, IOC, B. Lutz and Venancio, Dec, 15, 1935. 



7. marmorata — group 



The group here represented by marmorata senicula and microps is 

 distinct among Brazilian hylids because of the several features common 

 to all its members not found in combination in any other group: 

 Usually an axillar "wing" of skin; a short blunt snout nearly truncate 

 at the tip ; a more or less warty or glandular appearance of the skin 



