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light, almost white. Venter white, except for a narrow gray longi- 

 tudinal line in the center of the throat midway between the vocal 

 pouches. Soles of feet and palms of hands cinnamon brown, the 

 subarticular tubercles whitish. Upper lip pale brown mottled with 

 darker brown; a dark brown patch on shoulder just below vocal 

 pouches. 



Variations. — In a freshly caught series from Boracea, Sao Paulo, 

 the upper eyelids are dark, and a dark U-shaped mark often extends 

 backward from the eyelids onto the center of the back. An angular 

 dark patch often occurs just behind the tympanum. The white dots 

 of the tubercles are very apparent on the sides. The anterior femur 

 has the edges of the brown crossbars more or less outlined with white, 

 and the tibial bars only slightly less set off with a light tone. 



Remarks. — This form apparently replaces Elosia nasus in the inland 

 mountain ranges. It is much like nasus except that the skin of the 

 back, especially the anterior part, is noticeably more tubercular, while 

 nasTis has the skin of this region glandular and fairly smooth. In 

 general, the eye of aspera is a trifle larger in comparison to the snout, 

 but this does not hold in every case. The canthus rostralis is about 

 equally sharp in both species. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: 



Rio de Janeiro: Angra dos Reis, USNM 96525-38, A. Lutz, 1924. Barreira, 

 near Teres6polis, ZSBS 2106-7, Bresslau, Mar. 2, 1914. Bonito, Serra da 

 Bocaina, USNM 96627-32, 96761-2, A. Lutz, 1928-31. Petr6polis, USNM 

 96414, A. Lutz, Oct. 17, 1928; USNM 96415, A. Lutz, Aug. 18, 1927; USNM 

 96427, A. Lutz, Nov. 20, 1926, USNM 97650, 101137, B. Lutz, Cochran, 

 and Venancio, May 5, 1935. Serra da Bocaina, USNM 81153, A. Lutz, 

 1930. Teres6polis, ZSBS (1), Bresslau, April 1914; USNM 96457, A. Lutz, 

 Nov. 9, 1930. Travasso, Serra de Angra, USNM 97220-8, Werneck, March 

 1932. 



Santa Catarina: Humboldt, ZSBS 44/1922 (5), 45/22 (8), 46/22 (4), Erhardt, 

 1918-19. 



Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra, USNM 96836, A. Lutz; USNM 97831-40, Cochran 

 and Venancio, Apr. 25-26, 1935; USNM 102312. Boracea, DZSP 1751, 1754, 

 1756, 1758, 1760, 1762, 1765, 1769, 1781-2, 1789, 1795, 1798-9, 1801, 1804, 

 1811, 1813-5, Bokermann, 1947-8. Sao Paulo, USNM 129151-5, Vanzolini 

 and Bokermann, Dec. 12-19, 1947. Serra de Cubatao, ZSBS (1), A. Lutz, 

 1924. 



Elosia lateristrigata Baumann 



Figure 25 



1912. Elosia lateristrigata Baumann, pp. 89, 161, pi. 4, figs. 1-1, b (type locality, 



Organ Mountains, Rio de Janeiro). — Mibanda-Ribeiro, 1923b, p. 818; 



1926, p. 31, fig. 16, pi. 4, figs. 2-2,b.— NiEDEN, 1923, p. 404, fig. 307.— 



Mertens, 1930, p. 161.— A. Lutz, 1931, p. 232. 

 1926. Elosia glabra Miranda-Ribeiro, p. 31 (type locality, Itatiaia, Rio de 



Janeiro) . 



