350 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 206 



Specimens examined 

 BRAZIL: 

 Rio de Janeiro: Bonito, Serra da Bocaina, USNM 96756-8, A. Lutz, January 



1925. 

 Rio Grande do Sul: P6rto Alegre, USNM 97184-5, Gliesch, 1923. Estrella, 



northwest of Porto Alegre, ZSBS 197/1925, von Parseval, 1925. 

 Santa Catarina: Lag6a, IB 192 (4). Nova Teutonia, ltd, USNM 103684, 

 Plaumann, January 1938. 

 URUGUAY: USNM 73530, Felippone. Montevideo, MRHN IG 4544, Reg. 404. 



Physalaemus olfersi (Lichtenstein and Martens) 



Plate 32, Figures c, d 



1856. Phryniscus olfersi Lichtenstein and Martens, p. 40 (type locality, 

 Brazil) . 



1863. Phyllobates glandulosus Fitzinger, in Steindachner, p. 53, pi. 1, figs. 1-4 



(type locality, Brazil). 



1864. Nattereria lateristriga Steindachner, 1864a, p. 279, pi. 14, figs. 2-2,c 



(type locality, Curitiba, Parand). — Boulenger, 1882a, p. 273. — Bau- 



MANN, 1912, p. 162. 

 1882. Paludicola olfersi Peters, p. 62. — Berg, 1896, pp. 150, 176. — Wandolleck, 



1907, p. 11, pi. 1, figs. 6-6,b.— Baumann, 1912, p. 162.— L. MtJLLER, 



1922, p. 170.— Miranda-Riberio, 1926, p. 161, fig. 90.— Ltjederwaldt, 



1929, p. 39.— Carvalho, 1939a, p. 280. 

 1886. Paludicola olfersii Boulenger, 1886a, p. 413; 1887, p. 297; 1888c, p. 416.— 



Nieden, 1923, p. 509. 

 1927. Physalaemus olfersi Parker, 1927b, p. 464. 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 96636, Serra da Bocaina, Rio de 

 Janeiro. Vomerine teeth absent; tongue small, oval, about one-half 

 the width of mouth opening, its free posterior border not indented; 

 snout fairly elongate, rounded from above, slanting forwards in 

 profile, the upper jaw considerably projecting beyond the lower; 

 nostrils lateral, their distance from end of snout about one-half their 

 distance from eye. Canthus rostralis sharp and distinct, the flat 

 loreal region making a right angle with it. Eye moderate in size, 

 fairly prominent, its diameter equal to two-thirds of the length of 

 the snout; interorbital diameter 1% times the width of upper eyelid, 

 slightly greater than interval between nostrils. Tympanum very 

 faintly visible. Fingers moderately long, free, ridged on the sides, not 

 enlarged, second longer than first and shorter than fourth; metacarpal 

 tubercles moderately developed; subarticular tubercles of hands and 

 feet very pronounced; no antebrachial tubercle; toes long, free, with 

 narrow, distinct lateral ridges, not dUated at the tips, third and fifth 

 subequal, reaching beyond base of antepenultimate phalanx of fourth 

 toe; a small, sharply tapering inner metatarsal tubercle and a similar 

 outer one nearly as large; no tubercle on tarsus or heel; no apparent 

 inguinal gland. Body rather slender and elongate, in postaxillary 

 region sUghtly narrower than the head width; when hind hmbs are 



