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4, HYLA. 395 
Three outer fingers nearly one-third webbed ; a distinct rudiment of 
pollex ; toes half webbed ; disks as large as the tympanum ; sub- 
articular tubercles little developed. The hind imb being carried 
forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between 
the eye and the tip of the snout. Skin smooth, granulate on the 
belly and under the thighs; heel with a short dermal appendage. 
Light olive, with numerous parallel brown longitudinal bands on the 
body and limbs; these bands proceed from the snout, are unequal 
in width, and more or less distinctly edged with white ; the broader 
of the bands are sometimes broken up in series of ovate spots; a 
blackish band, edged with white above and below, and longitudinally 
traversed by another white band, from the nostril to the loin.. Male 
with an internal subgular vocal sac. From snout to vent 31 millim. 
Brazil. 
a0. o. Brazil. Dr. Gardiner, 
87. Hyla rubicundula. 
Hyla rubicundula, Reinh. § Liith. Vidensk. Meddel. 1861, p. 197 ; 
Cope, Proce. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1869, p. 164; Peters, Mon. Berl. 
Ae. 1872, p. 681. 
Differs from the preceding chiefly in having a shorter snout and a 
much smaller tympanum. Pinkish red above ; a dark lateral band ; 
thighs not coloured. From snout to vent 21 millim. 
Lagoa Santa, Brazil. 
<0 Me 
88. Hyla bracteator.- ’ 3 tal 
Hyla bracteator, Hensel, Arch. f. Naturg. 1867, p. 159; Peters: Mon. 
‘Berl. Ae. 1872, p. 681. 
leucoteenia, Ginth. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 489, pl. 40. f. 4. 
Tongue a short oval, not distinctly nicked, and slightly free 
behind. Vomerine teeth in two small rounded groups, slightly 
beyond the level of the choanee. Head moderate, scarcely broader 
than long; snout rounded, a little longer than the diameter of the 
orbit ; canthus rostralis angular; loreal region not very oblique ; 
interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum 
moderately distinct, nearly half the diameter of the eye. Fingers 
webbed at the base; a distinct rudiment of pollex, forming an acute 
claw in the male; toes half webbed; disks a little Signe than the 
tympanum ; subarticular tubercles moderate. ‘The hind limb being 
carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 
the eye. Skin smooth, granulate on the belly and under the thighs. 
Light greyish olive above; a white, inferiorly dark-edged line along 
the canthus rostralis, through the eye and the side of the body; 
‘another white line along the outer edge of the tibia; beneath im- 
maculate. Male with a large external gular vocal sac. From 
snout to vent 38 millim. 
Southern Brazil. 
a. doe Rio Grande, (Type of H. leucotenia.) 
