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The status of C. intermedia Barbour can be settled only after a 

 much larger series from Santa Catarina than is now available can 

 be compared. The few characters mentioned by Barbour in his 

 original description are all subject to a great deal of individual vari- 

 ation, especially the coloration. For instance, specimens from Bello 

 Horizonte in Minas Gerais and from Salto in Sao Paulo have a white 

 band joining the orbits and a very conspicuous brown spot below 

 the eye. The young specimen from Nova Friburgo has a white band, 

 while the adult female just described has a narrow white line between 

 the eyes; both have a light brown, hardly conspicuous spot below 

 the eyes. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: MHNP 691, Langsdorflf. 



DisTRicTO Fkderal: Tijuca, USNM 96312, A. Lutz, March 5, 1934. 



Minas Gerais: Bello Horizonte, USNM 96982, A. Lutz, December 1931, 

 Rio Pr^to, IB 14, Institute Butantan. 



Rio de Janeiro: ZSBS 64/47 (2), A. Lutz, 1925. Barra Mansa, IB 249. 

 Barreira near Teresdpolis, ZSBS 783/20 (4), Bresslau, February 1914. 

 Campo BeUo, ZSBS 220/25, A. Lutz, 1923. Capivary, IB 73. Niter6i, 

 USNM 96403-4, A. Lutz, September 28, 1923. Nova Friburgo, Valvera, 

 USNM 97766-7, B. Lutz, Cochran, and Venancio, May 11, 1935. 



Santa Catarina: Colonia Hansa, ZSBS 1/1915 (3), Schluser, 1915. Join- 

 ville, ZSBS 76/25, Erhardt, 1907. Rio Humboldt, USNM 66584, November 

 1918. Sao Bento, USNM 121322-3; IB 17-19 and 22-24. 



Sao Paulo: IB 223-5; ZSBS 629/1920, Weicke, 1913. Agua Quente, CM 

 2600, Haseman, November 28, 1908. Salto, USNM 121321; IB 25. 



Ceratophrys cristiceps F. Muller 



Plate 20, Figures i, j 



1884. Ceratophrys cristiceps F. Muller, p. 279, pi. 5, figs. 1-1, c (type locality, 

 Brazil). — Boulenger, 1903a, p. 69.— Baumann, 1912, p. 162. — Nieden, 

 1923, p. 385.— L. MItller, 1934a, p. 168. 



1920. Stombus cristiceps Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920d, p. 302; 1926, p. 126. 



Description. — Young female, USNM 121356, Diamantina, Minas 

 Gerais. Vomerine teeth in two wide, well-separated, transverse 

 series between the choanae; tongue about two-thirds as wide as mouth- 

 opening, cordiform, with a deep notch on its free posterior border; 

 snout very short, rounded when seen from above, truncate and slanting 

 forwards in profile, the upper jaw scarcely projecting beyond the 

 lower; nostrils superolateral, projecting, situated at the tip of the 

 snout, separated from each other by an interval equal to their distance 

 from eye. Canthus rostralis blunt, but marked by a slight ridge ex- 

 tending backward from the nostrils; loreal region flat, sloping. Eye 

 large, prominent, its diameter iVt times its distance from nostril; 

 interorbital diameter less than width of upper eyelid, equal to interval 



