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. 



Tono-ue oval, scarcely nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two very small groups close together behind the level of the 

 choanse. 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. Urichiif Bttgr., both 

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

 the tympanum smaller, the latter larger. 



Uyla variabilis. 



Tongue circular, entire, free behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two small groups between the choanas. 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 j 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 



