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Specimens examined 

 BRAZIL: 



Bahia: Bahia, MHNP 4496, Dabadie; MHNP 4568, Brunet. 



MiNAs Gerais: Bello Horizonte, USNM 96978-80, de Mello. Janudria, IB 



412. Lag6a Santa, UZMK 184-5, Reinhardt. Lassance, USNM 97015, A. 



Lutz, February 1922. Santa Rita, Lassance, USNM 98786-7, Dias, 1935. 



Rio de Janeiro: USNM 70593, A. Lutz. Teres6polis, MP 1011, Miranda- 



Ribeiro, 1922. 

 Sao Paulo: NMZ 3524, von Ihering. Bertioga, USNM 123393, Sawaya. 

 Capital, USNM 121285 and IB 079. Colombia, IB 83. Juru Mirim, 

 USNM 121286, Instituto Butantan. Luzitania, IB 212-3. Ribeirao Preto, 

 USNM 100970. Sao Paulo, USNM 100971, Worontzow. 

 Non-Brazilian specimens not listed. 



Leptodactylus podicipinus (Cope) 



Plate 29, Figures d-f 



1858. Cystignathus caliginosus (not of Girard) Gunther, p. 28. 



1862. Cystignathus -podicipinus Cope, 1862a, p. 156 (type locality, Paraguay); 



1862b, p. 353. 

 1876. Cystignathus calliginosus (sic) Weyenbergh, p. 165. 



1881. Leptodactylus caliginosus (not of Girard) Boulenger,, p. 30; 1882a (part), 



p. 248; 1889, p. 247; 1894, p. 348; 1898a, p. 132; 1903b, p. 481.— Peracca, 

 1895, p. 28; 1904a, p. 12; 1904b, p. 34.— Berg, 1896, pp. 150, 182.— 

 Gunther, 1901, p. 214.— MfiHELT, 1904, p. 223.— Baumann, 1912, p. 

 162.— Beebe, 1919, p. 209; 1925, p. 124.— Ruthven, 1919, p. 4.— 

 NiEDEN, 1923, p. 491.— Marelli, 1924, p. 586.— Cott, 1926, p. 1160.— 

 Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, p. 149, fig. 81; 1927, pp. 114, 116.— A. Lutz, 

 1926b, pp. 151, 170; 1927, pp. 39, 45; 1930, pp. 2, 22, pi. 2, figs. 1-3, 

 pi. 3, fig. 4, pi. 4, fig. 2.— Crawford, 1931, p. 31. — Parker, 1934b, p. 

 266. — MiJLLER and Hellmich, 1936, p. 36, fig. 13. — Hellmich, 1939, 

 p. 537.— Carvalho, 1939a, p. 280.— Melin, 1941, p. 56, fig. 31.— 

 Myers, 1946, pp. 10, 28.— Shreve, 1947, p. 536. 



1882. Leptodactylus podicipinus Boulenger, 1882a, p. 248. — A. Lutz, 1930, pp. 



4, 24, pi. 3, fig. 3, pi. 4, figs. 1, la,— Parker, 1940, p. 203.— Mello- 



Leitao, 1937, p. 342. 

 1926. Leptodactylus nattereri A. Lutz, 1926c, p. 1011 (type localities, Ilha S^ca 



and Cachoeira do Maribondo, Sao Paulo). 

 1930. Leptodactylus natalensis A. Lutz, pp. 7, 26, pi. 1, figs. 7, 7a, pi. 3, figs. 1, 



2 (type locality, Rio Grande do Norte) . 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 98801, Pirapora, Minas Gerais. 

 Vomerine teeth in two narrowly separated patches behind and 

 between the choanae ; tongue more than one-half the width of mouth- 

 opening, heart-shaped, with a slight notch on its free posterior border. 

 Snout rather short, bluntly rounded when seen from above, nearly 

 vertical in profile, without a shoveUike rim, upper jaw projecting 

 slightly beyond the lower. Nostrils superolateral, not projecting, 

 their distance from end of snout a little less than their distance from 

 eye, separated from each other by an interval equal to twice their 

 distance from end of snout. Canthus rostralis rounded, indistinct; 



