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from more northerly localities. But the quadrate spots and crossbars 

 are matched identically in several specimens from Rio de Janeiro, 

 while the heavy lateral tubercles are well developed in about half the 

 specimens. A white throat and belly occur in one individual, USNM 

 96275, from Tijuca in the city of Rio de Janeiro, so that the last 

 character which might possibly divide taophora as a geographic sub- 

 species is broken down. 



Specimens examined. 



BRAZIL: ZSBS 2493/0 (type of Rana miliaris, "ad ripam Amazonum"), Spix; 



MHNP 46-326, Vellard. 



Bahia: Itaet^, MRHN IG 9308 Reg. 49 (type of Hylodes brient), Massart, 

 1922. 



DisTRiCTO Federal: Recreio dos Bandeirantes, USNM 97624^7, 97633-5, B. 

 Lutz, Cochran, and Venancio, February 1935. Rio de Janeiro, AMNH 509; 

 NHMW (type of Eupsophus fuliginosus) , Novara Expedition; USNM 70588- 

 90, Metcalf, Oct. 13, 1925. Avenida Niemeyer, USNM 97460-7, Cochran and 

 Dias, Feb. 7, 1935. Mountains near Rio de Janeiro, ZSBS 66/1947 (6) , A. Lutz, 

 1932. Paineiras, USNM 97428-36, B. Lutz and Cochran, Jan. 27, 1935. Rua 

 Salvator Correio, USNM 97541-58, Dias, February- March 1935. Tijuca, 

 USNM 96245, 97415-6, A. Lutz; MZUM 104268, 104269 (7), Bailey, 

 1941. Teres6polis, ZSBS 26 (2), Mar. 28, 1929; ZSBS 79/1942 (2), Bress- 

 lau, April 1914. 



EspfRiTo Santo: MP 148. Mimosa, ZSBS 18/1947 (2), Bresslau. 



MiNAS Gerais: Juiz de F6ra, UZMK (type of Cystignathus discolor). Ouro 

 Prgto, USNM 97046, 97083, Cochran and Venancio, March 18, 1935. 



Rio de Janeiro: Angra dos Reis, USNM 70588-90, Metcalf. Barreira, near 

 Teres6polis, ZSBS 383, 2089, Bresslau, 1914. Guapi near Teresopolis, 

 NMS, Giesler. Itatiaia, AMNH 17043-6, 17048-9, 17059, Holt. Man- 

 garatiba, USNM 96390, Schirsch, January 1922. Nova Friburgo, USNM 

 97765, B. Lutz and Cochran, May 9, 1935. Petr6pons, USNM 38936, 

 Barbour. Teres6polis, ZSBS 26 (2), Mar. 28, 1929; ZSBS 79/1942 (2), 

 Bresslau, April 1914. 



Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra, USNM 96812, A. Lutz, February 1922; MP 432 

 (type of Ololigon abbreviatus taophora), Wackett, 1906. Boracea, DZSP 

 2349, 2352-4, 2359-60, 2363-4, 2369-70, 2373-4, 2380-8, 2390-2412, Boker- 

 mann, Jan. 12-18, 1948. Ilha de Sao Sebastiao, MP 652. 



Eupsophus petropolitanus (WaudoIIeck) 



Plate 26, Figures a-d 



1907. Hylodes petropolitanas Wandolleck, p. 7, figs, d-f, pi. 1, figs. 9-9, f (type 

 locality, Petr6poIis, Rio de Janeiro). — Nieden, 1923, p. 461. — Baumann, 

 1912, p. 161. 



1923. Ololigon, abbreviatus petropolitana Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923c, p. 844, pi. 1, 

 fig. D. 



1926. Ololigon miliaris petropolitana Miranda-Ribeiro, pp. 61, 202. 



1927. Eleutherodactylus petropolitanus L. MCller, p. 275. 

 1947. Thoropa petropolitana B. Lutz, p. 246. 



