20 On new Reptiles and Batrachians from Colombia. 



blackish, with small round whitish spots ; lower parts white, 

 throat and limbs dotted or reticulated with brown. 



From snout to vent 60 millim. 



A single female specimen from Buenaventura. 



Hylodes erythropleura. 



Tongue oval, scarcely nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two very small groups close together behind the level of the 

 choanEe. Head moderate, as long as broad ; snout rounded, 

 with distinct canthus and slightly concave loreal region ; 

 interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; nostril nearer 

 the tip of the snout than the eye ; tympanum distinct, one 

 third the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, dilated into 

 moderately large disks, first shorter than second ; subarticular 

 tubercles moderate ; toes with a slight rudiment of web, disks 

 moderate ; two small metatarsal tubercles. The tibio- tarsal 

 articulation reaches halfway between the eye and the end of 

 the snout. Skin smooth above ; belly granular. Greyish 

 above, sides of head and body darker ; three darker stripes 

 along the back ; three dark light-edged bars on the upper 

 lip ; throat and belly whitish, much freckled with grey ; sides 

 of belly, sides of thighs, and lower surface of tibia carmine- 

 red. 



From snout to vent 31 millim. 



A single female specimen from Cali. 



Allied to H. cerasinus, Cope, and H. Urichii, Bttgr., both 

 of which have longer hind limbs ; moreover, the former has 

 the tympanum smaller, the latter larger. 



Hyla variabilis. 



Tongue circular, entire, free behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two small groups between the choanal Head rather small, 

 a little broader than long ; snout rounded, as long as the 

 diameter of the orbit; canthus rostralis indistinct; loreal 

 region oblique, slightly concave ; nostril equally distant from 

 the end of the snout and the eye ; interorbital space nearly 

 as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum moderately distinct, 

 two fifths to one half the diameter of the eye. Fingers one- 

 fourth webbed; disks as large as the tympanum; no pro- 

 jecting rudiment of pollex ; toes three-fourths webbed ; no 

 tarsal fold. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tym- 

 panum or the posterior border of the eye. Skin smooth ; 

 belly and lower surface of thighs coarsely granular. Pale 

 greyish to dark purplish brown above, uniform or with more 



