FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL COCHRAN 291 



Genus Eupsophus Fitzinger 



1843. Eupsophus Fitzinger, p. 31. (Genotype, Cystignathus roseus Dum^ril and 



Bibron). 

 1843. Borhorocoetes (not of Schoenherr 1842) Bell, p. 34. 

 1843. Ololygon Fitzinger, p. 31. 

 1865. Thoropa Cope, 1865b, p. 110. 

 1865. Eusophus Cope, 1865b, p. 113. 

 1928. Borborocoetea Strand, p. 55. 



Generic diagnosis. — Pupil horizontal. Tongue subcircular, entire or 

 slightly nicked and free behind. Vomerine teeth. Tympanum more 

 or less distinct or absent. Fingers free; toes free or nearly so, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum cartila- 

 ginous; sternum a cartilaginous plate. Terminal phalanges simple 

 or slightly bifurcate. 



For a statistical analysis of measurements of the species of 

 Eupsophus here discussed, see pages 373 and 383. 



Key to species of Eupsophus of southeastern Brazil 



o '. Thumb spines very small, in 2 patches. 



6 '. Snout nearly semicircular when seen from above; no spines on second and 

 third fingers; venter immaculate; size small (about 28 mm.). 



lutzi (p. 291) 



b 2. Snout broadly oval; spines on second and sometimes on third fingers; venter 



with small dark spots on throat, chest and chin; size large (up to 78 



mm.) miliaris (p. 293) 



a *. Thumb spines relatively large, in a single patch of 6 to 10; snout bluntly 

 rounded; venter with small spots on throat and belly; size small (25 mm.). 



petropolitamis (p. 298) 



Eupsophus lutzi (Cochran) 



Plate 25, Figures a, b 



1938. Thoropa lutzi Cochran, p. 41 (type locality, Recreio dos Bandeirantes, 



Rio de Janeiro). 

 1946. Eupsophus lutzi Myers, pp. 11, 28. 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 97622, Recreio dos Bandeirantes, 

 Districto Federal. Vomerine teeth in two long, slender, posteriorly 

 converging series well separated medially, lying between the choanae ; 

 maxillary teeth well developed; tongue one-third as wide as mouth- 

 opening, oval, with a slight indentation on its nearly entirely attached 

 posterior border; a single toothlike process in front of lower jaw; 

 snout well rounded, almost semicircular when seen from above, its tip 

 bulging and very bluntly rounded in profile, the upper jaw projecting 

 slightly beyond the lower; nostrils superolateral, strongly projecting, 

 their distance from end of snout about one-third that to eye, sepa- 

 rated from each other by an interval equal to their distance from eye. 



