FROGS OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL — COCHRAN 351 



adpressed, heel reaches to center of eye; when limbs are laid along the 

 sides, knee and elbow overlap considerably; when hind legs are bent 

 at right angles to body, knees overlap. Skin of upper parts minutely 

 glandular, the network of glands becoming heavier on top of head ; a 

 slight glandular swelling above tympanum but no definite ridge; 

 venter smooth except for some glandules on the throat; posterior femur 

 below anus weakly granular; skin of belly very loose, tending to form 

 a large ventral disk. A heavy vocal sac extending from below comers 

 of mouth across throat. 



Dimensions. — Head and body 32.5 mm. ; head length 11.5 mm., width 

 9.5 mm.; femur 13 mm.; tibia 15.5 mm.; foot 16.5 mm.; hand 9 mm. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsum pale wood brown; a wide, sepia, diagonal 

 stripe beginning behind eye and extending behind arm along sides to 

 groin, narrowing posteriorly. This sepia stripe is bordered above by 

 a narrow, distinct white line beginning on the tip of the snout, tra- 

 versing the can thus and upper eyelid, and ending at the groin; a 

 second white line defines the lower anterior part of this sepia stripe 

 from below eye to shoulder; faint dark crossbars on upper tibia and 

 femur; venter dusky gray with small white dots prominent on belly 

 and posterior femur; vocal sac dark gray, with a few white dots. 



The females are quite similar in color, except that the venter is 

 pale with a few larger dark spots on throat and chest. 



Remarks. — This species is easily recognizable in a difficult group 

 because of the absence of a tarsal tubercle and because of the presence 

 of the very characteristic white-edged, sepia longitudinal stripe along 

 the sides from eye halfway to groin. 



Its voice is said to be a plaintive whimpering. 



Specimens examined 



BRAZIL: NHMW (1; type of Phyllobates glandulosus) . 



Rio de Janeiro: ZMB 5913, Garcia. Maca€, USNM 96476, Pugas, Mar. 2, 



1924. Nova Friburgo, USNM 96476, Pugas, Mar. 2, 1924. Petr6polis, 



BM 1932.10.2.15-8. Serra da Bocaina, USNM 96634-9, A. Lutz, Jan. 2-19, 



1930. Teres6polis, BM 95.3.6.2, Goeldi. 

 S.^NTA Catarina: Humboldt, ZSBS 285/1920 (6), 745/20, Erhardt. Rio 



Humboldt, USNM 66580-1, Fritsche, November 1918; BM 1923.6.1.26-7. 



Physalaemus signiferus (Girard) 



Plate 32, Figures b, p 



1853. Rhinoderma signifera Girard, p. 424 (type locality, Rio de Janeiro) ; 1858, 

 p. 72. 



1892. Paludicola signifera Boettger, p. 30. — Nieden, 1923 (part), p. 505, fig. 

 345.— MiRANDA-RiBEiRO, 1026 (part), p. 160, fig. 89. — Brazil and Vellard, 

 1926 (part), p. 43.— L. MIjller, 1927, p. 282.— Carvalho, 1939a, p. 280. 



1912. Paludicola signifer Baumann (part), p. 162. 



