Number io. May 15, 1915. 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann AunoR. Michigan. Published by the University. 



THE BREEDING HABITS OF PROSTHERAPIS SUB- 

 PUN CTATUS COPE. 



By Alexander G. Ruthven and Helen T. Gaice. 



The Bryant Walker Expedition to the Santa Marta Moun- 

 tains, Colombia, in 1913, secured a series of specimens, and 

 notes on the habits, of a small frog which corresponds so 

 closely to the original descriptions of Prostherapis snhl^inictatiis 

 Cope^ and Prostherapis variabilis Werner- as to leave little 

 doubt that these species are identical, as held by Bouhnger^ It 

 should be recorded that the type specimen of P. suhpiinctatns, 

 which was in the collection of The Commercial Museums, 

 Philadelphia, has disintegrated, so that one must rely upon the 

 published description, but the only apparent difference between 

 our material and the original description is that the adults in 



* Contributions to the Herpetology of New Grenada and Argentina. The Phila- 

 delphia Museums, Scient. Bull. No. i (1S99), p. 5, PI. i. Fig. 2. 



- L^eber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Colombien mid Trinidad. Verb. Ges. 

 Wien, xlix, pp. 474-475. 



^ Zool. Record, 1899, p. 27. 



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