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Dimensions. — Head and body 28.5 mm.; head length 9 mm., width, 

 9.5 mm.; femur 12 mm.; tibia 13.5 mm., foot 14 mm.; hand 8 mm 



Color in alcohol.- — Dorsum mouse gray with two dark, slate-colored, 

 parallel lines from center of eyelid to coccyx; outside these on each 

 side is a shorter diagonal stripe from midbody to groin ; a dark brown 

 line from tip of snout along canthus to eye, widening behind eye and 

 continuing downwards and backwards above the axilla, ending 

 halfway to groin; four vertical, dark brown, squarish spots on upper 

 lip, the spaces between them pale gra}^; five alternately wide and 

 narrow brown crossbars on upper parts of foot, tibia, and femur; a 

 paler bar along upper arm surface; venter olive-buff, with scattered 

 dark spots across anterior part of belly and chest; outer half of foot 

 and hand suffused with dark; posterior femur drab-gray, immaculate 

 except for a pair of small white patches marking glands below the 

 anus. Vocal sac clove brown to slate color. 



Variations. — Over a hundred individuals of this species were col- 

 lected in a pit beneath a railroad track in the town of Pirapora, about 

 300 km, north of Lagda Santa, and Bello Horizonte, the type locality 

 of Gomphobates notatus Reinhardt and Liitken, now admittedly syn- 

 onymized with cuvieri. In this fine series almost every kind of dorsal 

 pattern may be found, from the marbled circular markings figured by 

 Reinhardt and Liitken and suggesting those of Physalaemus fuscomacu- 

 latus to a linear pattern of fine, dark-edged, wavy stripes often em- 

 phasized by longitudinal glands. 



A wide dark stripe, fairly regular above but with its lower border 

 very irregular, begins at the tip of the snout in most of these speci- 

 mens of cuvieri, widens on the loreal region, becomes still wider behind 

 the ear, and extends along the sides more than halfway to the groin, 

 where a diagonal lighter fork of the dorsal pattern diverts it towards 

 the ventral region. 



Three Bolivian specimens of cuvieri received from the Museum of 

 Zoology of the University of Michigan agree well with some from 

 the Pirapora series. The great diversity of pattern occurs also in 

 Bolivian specimens, since two of them have a linear pattern of stripes 

 and the third a circular marbling of the dorsum. 



A large series of 50 well-preserved specimens from Sao Paulo shows 

 similar diversity in pattern. In some of these the vomerine teeth are 

 quite apparent; in others they are hardly to be perceived. 



Males of the species have large crescent-shaped external vocal 

 pouches extending laterally from ear to ear and lying in )(-shaped folds 

 on the throat when not inflated, suggesting those of Hyla raddiana 

 in shape. 



