390 HYLID A. 
eye. Fingers one-third webbed ; no projecting rudiment of pollex ; 
toes three-fourths webbed ; disks smaller than the tympanum ; sub- 
articular tubercles rather indistinct. The hind limb being carried 
forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches nearly 
the tip of the snout. Skin smooth, granulate on the belly and 
under the thighs. Rose-coloured above, the back scarcely dotted 
with violet ; a purplish-brown band round the snout through the 
eye along the sides to the loin; upper arm and thigh not coloured ; 
beneath whitish, immaculate. From snout to vent 27 millim. 
Ecuador. 
a, Her. ? Andes of Ecuador, Mr. Fraser [C.]. (Type.) 
77. Hyla strigilata. 
Hyla strigilata, Spiv, Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. p. 38, pl. 10. £. 3; Peters, 
Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, pp. 214 & 680. 
Tongue subcircular, openly emarginate and very slightly free 
behind. Vomerine teeth in two small transverse groups between 
the choanz. Head as long as broad ; snout prominent, longer than 
the diameter of the eye; loreal region slightly concave; tympanum 
distinct, one third the diameter of the eye. Outer fingers one-fourth 
webbed ; toes half webbed ; disks and subarticular tubercles mode- 
rate. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 
tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces 
slightly tubercular; belly and lower surface of thighs granulate. 
Upper surfaces brown-spotted ; limbs cross-barred ; loins blackish, 
light-spotted ; beneath, marbled with brown. From snout to vent 
42 millim. 
Brazil. 
78. Hyla peronii. 
Hyla peronii, Giinth. Cat. p. 112. 
Dendrohyas peronii, (Bibr.) Tschudi, Batr. p. 75. 
Hyla peronii, Dum. § Bibr. p. 569; Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, 
p- 250, pl. 80. f. A & B; Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 60; Keferst. 
Arch. f. Naturg. 1868, p. 282, pl. 8. f 30 & 31. 
Tongue subcireular or suboval, free and slightly nicked behind. 
Vomerine teeth in two transverse groups between the choane. 
Head moderate, a little broader than long; snout rounded, as long. 
as the diameter of the orbit; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal 
region oblique, slightly concave ; interorbital space as broad as the 
upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, two thirds the diameter of 
the eye. Fingers half webbed, or nearly so; no distinct rudiment 
of pollex; toes nearly entirely webbed; disks large, those of the 
fingers somewhat more than half the diameter of the eye; sub- 
articular tubercles moderate ; a distinct fold along the inner edge 
of the tarsus. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 
body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout 
