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Phyllohates heatriciae as new with a single specimen from 

 Zent, Costa Rica. On the basis of more extensive material and 

 re-examination of these specimens the opinions we then ex- 

 pressed require modification. 



Phyllohates heatriciae, of which five additional specimens 

 were taken at Almirante, Panama, and four in the Talamanca 

 Valley, Costa Rica, by Duryea and myself, seems to be iden- 

 tical with the frog described as Bendrohates luguhris by 

 Schmidt (Denksch. Acad. Wien, 14, 1858, p. 250, pi. 2, fig. 

 14), In the specimen we described the yellow dorso-lateral 

 lines had disappeared, and so had the line from the arm to 

 under the eye. These are quite apparent in the series at hand. 

 Schmidt 's specimens are well described and figured, and while 

 his are said to have come from the cloud forest at 5,000-7,000 

 feet, and ours all came from low rain forest, there seems to be 

 no doubt that the two are identical and the animal must be 

 known as Phyllohates luguhris (Schmidt). We did not take 

 it at La Loma nor in the cloud forest. It was observed to 

 have the tadpole-carrying habit. Its very different coloration, 

 dense black with narrow yellow lines, precludes any confusion 

 with the other forms. 



The redescription of Phyllohates talamancae by Barbour 

 and myself was based on a male of this species and a female 

 of what seems to be Phyllohates latinasus (Cope). This speci- 

 men of latinasus was assumed to be a female at the time of 

 describing. The male of talamancae has a black throat and 

 this specimen was carrying tadpoles; the very similar speci- 

 men of latinasus, taken in the same stream, with a light throat, 

 and without tadpoles, was assumed to be the female, an as- 

 sumption which dissection has shown to be erroneous. 



The two species were found in both Costa Rica and Panama 

 last summer, and were supposed to be the same. Two very 

 different sorts of tadpoles at La Loma, which both seemed to 

 us in the field to turn into the same frog, caused a critical 

 examination of all the available material upon our return. 

 Specimens of Phyllohates latinasus have been seen from Santa 

 Cecilia, Costa Rica ; Almirante and La Loma in western Pan- 

 ama; Cerro Azul near the Canal Zone (U. S. N. M., 54174^5) ; 



