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round glands appear in more or less regular groupings around the 

 edge of the membrane. An older tadpole from the same lot, with a 

 head-and-body length of 16 mm., has the hind limbs well developed 

 and the fore limbs lying just under the skin ready to break through. 

 The total length at this stage is 46 mm., and the pointed tail indicates 

 that its absorption has probably not yet begun. Two other tadpoles 

 from Tijuca, USNM 96226, and two from Rio de Janeiro, USNM 

 81148, agree with the others in having three transverse rows of small 

 but heavily pigmented teeth. 



In a series of 20 larvae, USNM 96642, from Bonito, Serra da Bo- 

 caina, collected January 2-19, the transverse rows of teeth are un- 

 developed, while only the inner row below the beak is pigmented. 

 In only one or two of these tadpoles can any teeth be seen on the 

 transverse ridge occurring in the position where the upper row of 

 teeth so prominently appears in Tijuca tadpoles. The mouth mem- 

 brane is not so large in the Serra da Bocaina tadpoles. 



Specimens examined 

 BRAZIL: 



DisTRicTO Federal: Rio de Janeiro, USNM 81147-8, A. Lutz. Paineiras, on the 

 slope of Corcovado, USNM 96338 (cotype of P. guttata), A. Lutz, November 

 1923. Sumar6, USNM 96317 (cotype of P. guttata), A. Lutz, Jan. 28, 1920. 

 Tijuca, USNM 96224-5, A. Lutz, November 1923; USNM 96226 (tadpoles), 

 A. Lutz, Feb. 2, 1920; USNM 97227 (tadpoles), Venancio, Feb. 25, 1929; 

 USNM 118996-7, B. Lutz, November 1939. 

 Rio de Janeiro: Serra da Bocaina, USNM 96642 (tadpoles), 96548-56, A. Lutz, 

 Jan. 2-19, 1930; USNM 96643 (tadpoles), A. Lutz, March 1934. 



Phyllomedusa rohdei Mertens 



Plate 19, Figures e-g 



1926. Phyllomeduna rohdei Mertens, 1926c, p. 140 (type locality, Rio de Janeiro) ; 



1929, p. 287.— Lutz and Lutz, 1939b, pp. 219, 240.— Mters, 1946, pp. 



14, 32.— B. Lutz, 1949b, p. 551. 

 1926. Bradymedusa moschata Miranda-Ribeiro, p. 104, fig. 61 (type locality, 



Teres6polis, Rio de Janeiro). — Mertens, 1929, p. 287. 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 99110, Manguinhos, Districto 

 Federal. Vomerine teeth lacking; tongue small, ovoid, less than one- 

 half as wide as mouth opening, not indented on its free posterior 

 border; snout moderate in length and truncate when viewed from 

 above and in profile, the upper jaw not projecting beyond the lower; 

 nostrils lateral, scarcely projecting, their distance from tip of snout 

 about one-third that to eye, separated from each other by an interval 

 nearly equal to their distance from eye. Canthus rostralis prominent 

 though rounded; loreal region concave and nearly vertical. Eye 

 large, rather prominently projecting, its diameter almost as great as 



