9. HYL0DE8. 203 



Throat brown, with, light specks; belly light yellowish brown, with 

 dark spots. 

 Mexico. 



4. Hylodes podiciferus. 



Lithodytes podiciferus, C'«j>e, Jouni. Ac. Philad. (n, s.) viii. 1870, 



p. 107, pi. 23. f. 9. 

 Hylodes podiciferus, Brocchi, Miss. So. Mex., Bafr. p. 50. 



Tongue oval, slightly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in two 

 small oblique series behind the ehoance. Snout subacuminate, as 

 long as the orbital diameter; nostril much nearer the tip of the 

 snout than the eye ; interorbital space broader than the upper eye- 

 lid ; tympanum distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. Tij)3 

 of fingers and toes scarcely dilated. The hiud limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches beyond 

 the tip of the snout. Skin smooth. Four varieties of colour are 

 distinguished by Cope. The present specimen is greyish, marbled 

 with brown ; sides of head and of front part of body, and a cross bar 

 between the eyes, dark brown ; a light vertebral line ; hind limbs • 

 cross-barred. 



C. America. 



a. Young. Neighbourhood of Nazu. Messrs. Salvin and Godman [P.]. 



5. Hylodes muricinus. 



Lithodytes muricinus, Cope, Jonrn. Ac. Philad. in. s.) viii. 1876, 



p. 108. 

 Hylodes muricinu?, Brocehi, Miss. Sc. Mex., Batr. p. 56. 



The shorter hind limbs (the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the 

 tip of the snout) and larger tympanum (the size of which equals 

 that of the eye), with the more transverse and widely separated 

 vomerine teeth, distinguish this form from H. jpodiciferus. 



Pico Blanco, Costa llica. 



[Lithodytes habenatus, Cope, I. c. p. 109. 

 Hylodes habenatus, Brocehi, I. c. 



Is probably not specifically different from H. muricinus. 

 Pico Blanco.] 



6. Hylodes rhodopis. 



Lithodytes, rhodopis, Cojk, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 323, and Proc. 



Amer. Philos. Sac. xi. 1869, p. 160. 

 Hylodes sallfei, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. .^87, pi. 38. f. 3. 

 rhodopis, Brocehi, Miss. Sc. Mex., Batr. p. 50. 



Tongue heart-shaped, slightly nicked behind. Yomerine teeth in 

 two small oblique groups behind the choanas. Snout rather pointed, 

 a little longer than the orbital diameter, with angular canthus ros- 

 tralis ; nostril much nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, 



