FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL COCHRAN 225 



Dimensions. — Head and body 38.5 mm.; head length 16.5 mm., 

 width 20 mm.; femur 15.5 mm.; tibia 15.5 mm.; foot 16 mm.; hand 11 

 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum pale tan, with narrow black markings 

 outlining some of the ridges and tubercles, especially those between the 

 eyes and on sides of back ; two wide brown diagonal bars across forearm 

 and tibia above the rows of lobules, and traces of paler brown bars on 

 upper and posterior femoral surfaces. Throat and chest dark brown, 

 belly coarsely mottled with brown and buff; lower surfaces of legs buff, 

 with a few small brown spots on the feet. Upper lip buff, with a dark 

 blotch below the eye; tip of snout and horn sepia; a pale buff inter- 

 orbital band followed by a dark brown occipital marking. 



Remarks. — Another specimen from Rio de Janeiro, USNM 96948, is 

 similar in proportions and pattern and is likewise spiny in appearance, 

 due to the long lobules of skin on the legs and outer edges of arms. 



The individuals of this species are seldom collected. Adults live 

 under leaves and in stumps of tree ferns in mountain forests and feed 

 upon crickets and small frogs, especially on young Eleutherodactylus 

 guentheri. The voice is not known, and the eggs and young have not 

 been observed. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: KZAEM 701 (2), Fruhstrofer; BM 43.5.19.102. 

 MiNAS Gerais: Tunel, BM 1901.3.1.14, Robert. 

 MiNAs Gerais or EspfRiTO Santo: AMNH 38542, Kaempher, 1929. 

 Rio de Janeiro: BarrSo H. de Mello, USNM 121320, IB 111, Instituto 



Butantan, Barreira, near Teres6polis, ZSBS 37/1947 (4), Bresslau, 1914. 



Campo Belle, Itatiaia, USNM 96948, Zikan, February 1924. Teres6polis, 



ZSBS 776/20, Bresslau, April 1914. 

 Santa Catarina: Humboldt, ZSBS 287/1920 (4), Erhardt, Nov. 10, 1918. 

 Sao Paulo: ZSBS 628/1920, Weicke, 1913. Boracea, USNM 128147-9, 



Bokermann, Mar. 30, 1949. Piquete, BM 1907.7.29.20, Robert. 



Ceratophrys boiei Wied 



Plate 20, Figures g, h 



1824. Ceratophrys boiei Wied, 1824b, p. 673 (type locality. Province of Bahia); 

 1824a, pi. 73, figs. 1, 2; 1825, pp. 569, 692.— Dum6ril and Bibron, 1841, 

 p. 437. — GtJNTHER, 1858, p. 25. — Steindachner, 1867, p. 28. — Boulen- 

 GER, 1882a, p. 223; 1888c, p. 416.— Boettger, 1892, p. 29.— Wandol- 

 LECK, 1907, p. 9. — Baumann, 1912, pp. 92, 161. — Miranda-Ribeiro, 

 1920d, p. 292.— L. MOller, 1922, p. 170; 1927, p. 268.— Nieden, 1923, 

 p. 383.— Mertens, 1930, p. 162. 



1829. Stombus boiei Gravenhorst, p. 50, pi. 9, figs. 1, 2. — Miranda-Ribeiro, 

 1923f, p. 204, pi. 1; 1926, pp. 122, 213.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, p. 342. 



1829. Ceratophrys granosa Cuvier, p. 107 (type locality, Am6rique m^ridionale) . 



1860. St07nbus granosus Fitzinger, p. 415. 



1862. Ceratophrys bojei Reinhaedt and LCtkbn, p. 157. 

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