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Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: 



DiSTBiCTO Federal: Bico do Papagaio, USNM 97219. Tijuca, USNM 



96242-4, A. Lutz, July 1921. 

 MiNAS Gerais: Santa Rita de Passa Quatro, USNM 96919, A. Lutz, November 



1920. 

 Rio de Janeiro: Bonito, Serra da Bocaina, USNM 96664-91, 96705, A. and B. 



Lutz. Colonia Alpina, near Teres6polis, BM 94.5.23.14-15 (cotypes of H. 



goeldii), Goeldi; BM 94.5.23.16-21, 95.3.6.4. Maca6, USNM 96475, Pugas, 



Mar. 23, 1924. Pedra de Sertao, Serra das Orgaos, NHNP 02-378, 



Wagner. Petr6polis, NHiMH 2624, Ohaus, Jan. 1, 1900. Serra de Friburgo, 



USNM 96466, A. Lutz, October 1922. 

 Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra, MP 307, 



Genus Nototheca Bokermann 



1950. Nototheca Bokermann, p. 217. (Genotype, Coelonotus fissilis Miranda- 

 Ribeiro.) 



Generic diagnosis. — A translation of Bokermann's generic diagnosis 

 follows: 



Hylidae with characteristic slender body. Eyes projecting, pupils oval. Vomer- 

 ine teeth present; mandible toothless, maxillae provided vath small, sharp, 

 irregular teeth. Tongue thick and cordiform. Skin of head not adhering to 

 skull. Omosternum and xiphisternum cartilaginous; sacral diapophysis dilated 

 and directed backwards. Females with a dorsal incubating pouch, opening 

 exteriorly in a bifurcate longitudinal slit. 



Nototheca fissilis (IVIiranda-Ribeiro) 



Plate 18, Figure i 



1920. Coelonotus fissilis Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920g, p. 324 (type locality, Serra 



de Maca6, Rio de Janeiro) ; 1926, p. 108. 

 1950. Nototheca fissilis Bokermann, p. 218, figs. 1-4, 6-8. 



Description. — Since no examples of this species have been examined 

 by me, the following translation of Bokermann's redescription of it 

 is given: 



Lectotype: Dept. Zool. No. 30 A. 



General aspect slender. Head not much flattened, its width contained approxi- 

 mately three times in total length of body. Eyes projecting, longer than the 

 distance which separates them from nostrils; pupil oval, transversely elongate. 

 Tympanum very apparent, less than 1/3 the eye diameter. Canthus rostralis 

 very evident. Nostrils small, weU above the canthus rostralis, near tip of snout, 

 which is sharp and slightly projecting. Skin of head completely free of skull. 



Vomerine teeth in two series very close together between and behind the large 

 choanae, forming an arc directed backwards. Mandibles toothless. Maxillae 

 provided with a series of small, pointed, irregular teeth. 



Tongue thick and cordiform, slightly free and notched on its posterior border. 



Sternal apparatus robust; coracoids and precoracoids curved; omosternum 

 cartilaginous, small and lanceolate in shape; xiphosternum very large, cartilaginous 

 and spatulate with its extremity terminated by a slight but very broad notch. 



