152 ENGYSTOMATIDE. 
B. Greyish above, marbled with yellow and blackish brown ; 
beneath yellowish, anal region brown. 
1-0, p-q. 3 Q. W. Ecuador. My. Fraser bel 
Moan Paitanga, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C.]. 
C. Purplish brown above, immaculate; limbs green; flanks 
greenish or purple, white-dotted ; greenish yellow beneath. 
Se Ape Paitanga, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C.]. 
D. Bright green, with a few irregular purple spots; greenish 
yellow beneath, except the belly and thighs, which are orange. 
UD: «Os Intac, Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C. ]. 
4. Phryniscus seminiferus. 
Atelopus seminiferus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1874, p, 150. 
Snout viewed from above rounded, truncate, and in profile some- 
what prominent; the diameter of the eye equals the length of the 
snout. Fingers slightly, toes entirely webbed. Body elongate, 
limbs rather short; the heel marking the scapula. Skin smooth 
except on the sides, where there are numerous closely-placed minute 
tubercles from the head tothe groin; a broad fold of skin extending 
from the side to the middle of the length of the femur. Above 
dark brown; below brownish orange; sides black from head to 
groin; each tubercle of the skin yellow, resembling yellow grains ; 
limbs uniform black. 
Peru, 
5. Phryniscus varius. 
Phryniscus varius, Giinth. Cat. p. 45. 
Atelopus varius, Stannius, Handb. der Zoot, 2. Aufl. Amph. p. 16; 
Keferst. Gétting. Nachr, 1867, p. 350, and Arch. f. Naturg. 1868, 
p. 292, pl. viii. f. 33 & 34. 
Phrynidium yarium, Martens, Nomencl. Rept. Mus. Zool. Berol. 
. 40. 
P 
Hylemorphus dumerilii, Schmidt, Denkschr, Ac. Wien, 1858, p. 255, 
pl. 3. f. 23 & 24. 
Habit slender. Head longer than broad, its length contained 
twice and a half or twice and two thirds in females, twice or twice 
and one third in males, in the length of the trunk; sides of head 
vertical ; snout subacuminate, projecting; nostril much nearer the 
tip of the snout than the eye; the diameter of the latter equals its 
distance from the nostril; interorbital space considerably broader 
than the upper eyelid in females, as broad as, or a little broader than 
the upper eyelid in males. Fore limb slender, as long as or a little 
longer than the trunk; fingers moderate, first short but very 
distinct ; one rather indistinct metacarpal tubercle ; no subarticular 
