FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL — COCHRAN 321 



lateral fringe, the tips very slightly dilated into disks that appear 

 to be grooved above; second and fourth subequal, reaching to base of 

 penultimate phalanx of thhd; no pronounced pollex, but a large pro- 

 jectiQg oval tubercle at base of thumb, the subarticular tubercles well 

 developed; toes fringed, the disks of the first and second not enlarged, 

 the other three toes with slight grooved disks like those of fingers; 

 third toe much longer than fifth, reachmg nearly to base of penulti- 

 mate phalanx of fourth; a blunt, oval inner and a very weak outer 

 metatarsal tubercle; a very faint glandular ridge along inner side of 

 tarsus; body very stout, in postaxUlary region considerably greater 

 than width of head ; when hind leg is adpressed, heel reaches to anterior 

 tympanic border; when limbs are laid along the sides, knee and elbow 

 fan to meet; when hind legs are bent at right angles to body, heels 

 barely overlap. Skin of top of head and center of back thick but very 

 smooth; a heavy supra tympanic glandular ridge which branches behind 

 the tympanum, the shorter branch endmg above the shoulder in a 

 heavy glandular knob, the other branch widening at once to an ex- 

 tremely heavy lateral gland which thickens greatly opposite to the 

 beginning of the sacrum and covers the whole side in front of the groin, 

 bending on the back and covering the end of the body beside the 

 coccyx; just behind this is a separate kidney-shaped gland on each side 

 of the anus, whUe another very heavy gland covers the uiferolateral 

 border of the femur, the area between these glands and behind the 

 anus and below the dorsolateral glands heavily granular, but the skin 

 on the upper limb surfaces remarkably smooth; a heavy glandular 

 knob behind the corner of the mouth ; ventral surfaces smooth, except 

 for the granules on the lower thigh. No glandular ridge on tip of 

 snout. (Vocal sacs in the male?) 



Dimensions. — Head and body 137 mm.; head length 47 mm., width 

 53 mm. ; femur 60 mm. ; tibia 62 mm. ; foot 64 mm. ; hand about 30 mm. 

 (tip of third finger missing) . 



Color in alcohol. — Head and center of back olive; an Indian-purple 

 stripe beginning as a narrow Ime on canthus, widening behind ear and 

 making a wide dorsolateral stripe above the lateral glands on the 

 smooth skin of the back, where it is separated by a straight line of 

 black dots from the dorsal ground color; lower part of glands marked 

 irregularly with black ; an irregular black spot in the groui ; femur with 

 narrow but fairly regular black crossbands above, and black with a 

 few pale spots posteriorly; tibia and tarsus with irregular prominent 

 black spots and bars, with a few paler ones across the arm; posterior 

 surfaces of tarsus, foot, forearm, and upper arm black; upper lip with 

 two triangiilar dark spots separated by pale lines below eye, the pale 

 border to the hindmost triangle continuing forwards indistinctly to 

 nostril and backwards below tympanum to shoulder, enduig on the 



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