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axillary region a little narrower than greatest width of head; when 

 hind leg is adpressed, heel reaches to far beyond end of snout; when 

 limbs are laid along the sides, knee and elbow greatly overlap; when 

 hind legs are bent at right angles to the body, heels overlap greatly. 

 Skin of upper parts finely glandular, with a fairly distinct dorsolateral 

 ridge; small tubercles on upper lip, on eyelids, and between the eyes; 

 a weak supratympanic fold, and a short gland just above the corner of 

 the mouth; venter smooth; a few granules behind anus extending a 

 short distance onto the femur. Possibly an indistinct ventral disk? 



Dimensions. — Head and body 23 mm.; head length 9 mm., width 

 8 mm.; femur 13 mm.; tibia 16 mm.; hind limb 45 mm.; fore limb 

 15 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum clove brown, with a narrow, light sepia 

 interorbital bar; femur light sepia with about five wide, dark bars 

 above, and a finely reticulated dark area on posteroventral surface, 

 this latter separated from the dark bars distally by a conspicuous pale 

 area; tibia sepia, with a longitudinal clove-brown stripe on its outer 

 surface, and some indistinct dark marblings above; sides of body 

 white, with fine dark reticulations especially prominent in axillary 

 region; venter white, the throat and chest heavily reticulated with 

 dark; upper lip with a dark triangle pointing into the eye, preceded 

 and followed by a narrow, pale bar; tarsus and forearm heavily barred 

 with clove brown. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: 



Rio de Janeiro: Angra dos Reis, USNM 96542-3 (cotypes of Eupemphix 

 holbodadyla) , Pugas, January 1925. Organ Mountains National Park, near 

 Teres6polis, Lutz Coll., B. Lutz and Venancio, March 1945. 



Basanitia lactea Miranda-Ribeiro 



Figure 21 



1923. Basanitia lactea Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923d, p. 851, pi. 1 (type localities, 

 Iguap6, and Campo Grande, Sao Paulo) ; 1926, pp. 50, 201, fig. 30. — A. 

 Lutz, 1931, p. 239, pi. 64, figs. 10, 11, pi. 65, fig. 19.— Mello-Leitao, 

 1937, p. 315. 



Description. — Redescription of adult female, MP 828 (type), 

 Iguap6, Sao Paulo. Vomerine teeth in two small, oblique, narrowly 

 separated patches behind the choanae and well within their internal 

 margins ; maxillary teeth well developed ; a transverse row of odontoids 

 on the palatine bone; tongue covered with small conical glandules, 

 large, its width equalling more than three-fourths the large mouth- 

 opening, notched and free posteriorly; a very minute toothlike process 

 in front of lower jaw; snout semicircular in outline when seen from 

 above, rounding in profile, the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower; 



