456 On neio Reptiles and Batrackians. 



broad black band along each side of the back, confluent or 

 not with a black spot on the upper eyelid ; mouth witli a 

 narrow black edge ; belly and limbs marbled with black or 

 with a wide-meshed black network ; base of arm, lumbar 

 region, and lower surface of tibia vermilion-red ; back of 

 thighs vermilion above, black beneath. 



From snout to vent 20 millim. 



Four specimens from Porvenir, Bolivar, western slope, 

 about 5800 feet. 



Phyllodromus vertebralis. 



Snout rounded, feebly projecting ; canthus rostralis obtuse ; 

 loreal region very slightly oblique ; nostril nearer the tip of 

 the snout than the eye ; interorbifal space a little broader 

 tliaTi the upper eyelid ; tympanum rather indistinct, its 

 diameter a little more than half that of the eye. Fingers and 

 toes rather short, with small disks and feeble subarticular 

 tubercles ; first finger not extending beyond second ; toes 

 free; two feebly prominent rounded metatarsal tubercles and 

 an oblique curved fold from the inner metatarsal tubercle to 

 the nnddle of the tarsus. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 

 the shoulder or the tympanum. Skin smooth. Grey above, 

 with or without darker spots ; a dark lateral band, edged 

 above with whitish, from the end of the snout to tiie groin, 

 passing through the eye and over the tympanum ; a fine 

 wiiitish vertebral line; hinder side of thighs mottled with 

 brown ; upper lip and lower parts white. Male with an 

 internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 20 millim. 



Several specimens from Caiiar, 8400 feet altitude. 



Hylodes crucifer. 



Tongue oval, entire. Vomerine teeth in two small oblique 

 oval grouj)s behind the level of the choanal. Head as long 

 as broad ; snout pointed, projecting ; canthus rostralis distinct, 

 curved ; loreal region concave ; interorbital space a little 

 narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, two 

 filths the diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes moderate, 

 with large transversely oval disks and leeble subarticular 

 tubercles ; first finger not extending as far as second ; toes 

 free. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the 

 snout. Skin with scattered large prominent warts, disjiosed 

 symmetrically, the most conspicuous of which are subconical 

 and situated on the upper eyelid, below the tympanum, and 



