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Dimensions. — Head and body 108 mm.; head length 47 mm., 

 width 62 mm.; femur 40 mm.; tibia 36 mm.; foot 43 mm.; hand 

 32 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum slate-gray, with a pair of roughly cres- 

 centic dark brown spots behind the eyes extending across the lateral 

 processes of the dorsal shield, and another pair outlining the posterior 

 part of the shield; several irregular dark brown spots and bars on 

 sides and posterior part of back, the most prominent being the one 

 from the posterior tympanic border, fading out on the sides; a dark 

 diagonal spot below eye; a large, somewhat triangular spot on the 

 loreal region and in front of eye, and a dark streak along the ridge 

 from nostrils to end of snout; posterior femur heavily marbled with 

 brown on slate color, and upper femur and legs heavily marked by 

 two wide, dark crossbands; a single dark crossband on forearm. 

 Venter ochre yellow, the throat black. 



Remarks. — The specimen from Guapi was kept alive for awhile. 

 When disturbed the frog grunted ah, ah, ah, ah repeatedly in a harsh, 

 low voice, and inflated its sides. Whenever a steel forceps or stick 

 was presented, it leaped at once and seized the end with a good deal 

 of vigor. When left undisturbed, it partly buried itself in the moss 

 at the bottom of its cage. 



The life history of the species has been recorded by Miranda- 

 Ribeiro (1923). The collector Venancio says it is rarely found. 

 It is sometimes called the sapo hoi because its voice resembles the low 

 bellow of an ox. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: USNM 57506; USNM 89271. 



Rio de Janeiro: USNM 115606-7, B. Lutz, 1938. Guapi, Teres6polis, 



USNM 97709, Sandig, April 1935. 

 Santa Catarina: Rio Humboldt, USNM 66585, November 1918. 



Genus Craspedoglossa L. Miiller 



1922. Craspedoglossa L. Muller, p. 167. (Genotype Craspedoglossa sanctae- 



catharinae L. Muller.) 

 1926. Craspedoglossus Miranda-Ribeibo, pp. 49, 201; 1935, p. 416. — A. Lutz, 



1929a, pp. 5, 17. 



Generic diagnosis. — Pupil horizontal. Vomerine teeth. Tongue 

 thick, set upon a heavy stalk, not protractile. Fingers and toes free, 

 truncate at the tips. Omosternum a subulate cartilage. Sternum a 

 cartilaginous plate, partly ossifying in the adult. 



The abrupt widening of the maxillary bone anterior to the com- 

 missure of the jaws is a character which links this genus to Ceratophrys, 

 Zachaenus, and Cycloramphus, while other similarities of these four 



