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brown postanal area and run halfway to the knee; the lower parts of 

 tibia and tarsus also show remnants of the dark crossbands; and the 

 toes (above and below) are dark, the webs between them being very 

 light. 



Remarks. — The voice is much like that of Hyla albomarginata, con- 

 sisting of a repeated creck-creck-creck or a strong, rather hoarse cran, 

 cran, cran, c-r-r-en, c-r-r-en. Adults are found at night in stagnant 

 water and on bulrushes (taboas) where there is no arboreal vegetation, 

 in swamps of the seaboard plain of the State of Rio De Janeiro, The 

 eggs and young are not yet known, and the species appears to be quite 

 rare, although it has been taken in several different places. 



Specimens examined 

 BRAZIL: 



DisTRicTO Federal: Rio de Janeiro, USNM 81102, A. Lutz, 1930. Surupuhy, 

 USNM 97399-97400, Cochran, Dias, and Venancio, Mar. 6, 1935. Swamp 

 at Km. -lO on road to Sao Paulo, USNM 97559-60, A. Lutz, Cochran, and 

 Venancio, Feb. 20, 1935. 



Rio de Janeiro: Estrella, USNM 96441-2 (cotypes of H. anceps), A. Lutz, 

 Jan. 3, 1929. 



11. goeldii — group 



The species goeldii stands alone among hylids in having a dorsal 

 brood pouch for eggs in the female. It may be a link with Nototheca 

 Jissilis and with the Gastrothecas, but the internal anatomy of all the 

 pouch-bearing forms will have to be studied in great detail before their 

 true relationships can be accurately stated. 



Hyla goeldii Boulenger 



Plate 18, Figures a-h 



1895. Hyla goeldii Boulenger, 1895a, p. 645, pi. 40, fig. 2 (type locality, Colonia 

 Alpina, Teres6polis, Rio de Janeiro); 1895b, p. 209, pi. 10, figs. 1-3. — 

 Goeldi, 1895, p. 94, fig. 2. — Gadow, 1901, p. 198. — Brandes and Schoen- 

 iCHEN, 1901, p. 404.— Baumann, 1912, p. 163. — Mertens, 1930, p. 162.— 

 Mello-Leitao, 1937, pp. 141-2, fig. 28. — Myers and Carvalho, 1945, 

 p. 17.— Myers, 1946, pp. 14, 31.— B. Lutz, 1947, p. 245, pi. 1. 



1907. Hyla ohausi Wandolleck, p. 4, pi. 1, figs. 8-8,b (type locality, Petr6polis, 

 Rio de Janeiro).— Baumann, 1912, p. 163.— Nieden, 1923, p. 298.— 

 L. MttLLER, 1924b, p. 235.— B. Lutz, 1947, p. 246; 1949a, p. 4. 



1920. Fritzia goeldi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920g, p. 321. 



1920. Fritzia hohausi Miranda-Ribbiro, 1920g, p. 327. 



1926. Fritzia goldii Miranda-Ribeiro, p. 107, fig. 63. 



1926. Fritzia ohausi Miranda-Ribeiro, p. 107. 



1937. Fritziana goeldii Mello-Leitao, p. 330. 



Description. — Adul t male,USNM 96665, Bonito, Serra da Bocaina, Rio 

 de Janeiro. Vomerine teeth in two short, rather weak, transverse series 

 narrowly separated medially behind the very small choanae; tongue 



