HARBOIK AND NOHLK: AMrillHIANS FHOM VVMV . 42.'i 



TluTo are five towns known as I'otrcro in ('liilc. The specimens 

 probably came from some one of these localities rather than from 

 some wholly indefinitely located pasture. 



Telmatobius marmoratus (Dmneril and Hibron). 



Ci/cJorani/)fius niarnioraiux Dunieril et Bibron, Erpot. g»'n., IStl, 8, p. 45o. 

 Cyclorhamphus inarmoralus Peters, Monatsb. Berl. akad., 1873, pi. 2, fig. 2, 



pi. 3, %. 3. 

 Tehtiatobius marmoratus Boulengcr, Cat. Batr. SaL Brit, mus., 1882, p. 192. 



Diagnosis (extracted from original description). Vomerine teeth in two 

 very small groups between the choanae. Toes half webbed. The tarso- 

 metatarsal joint reaches the tip of the snout when the hind leg is extended 

 forward. Skin perfectlj- smooth, neither glands nor tubercles on any part of 

 the body. Ground -color pbove grey van,'ing to brown; upper surface marbled 

 with black and generally irregularly covered with little white spots. Ventral 

 surface grey, with or without black marblings, the appendages darker than the 

 throat or abdomen. 



Boulenger (1882, p. 192) adds in part to this description: — Choanae 

 large. Tj-mpanum small, liidden. The hind limb carried fom^ard along the 

 body, the tibiotarsal articulation does not reach the ej^e. A fiat parotoid 

 gland frequently indistinct. 



Habitat. Huasaeona, a hacienda in the District of Asangaro, De- 

 partment of Puno, Peru. 



Remarks. Dumeril and Bibron (1841, p. 455) in describing the 

 species say: — ■ 



"Cette espece est une decouverte faite au Chili par M. Pent land; le lieu ou 

 elle a ete trouvee par ce savant naturaliste se nomme Guasacona." 



We ha\"e made a vain search for this locality in all the old maps and 

 statistical volumes at our disposal. There seems to have been no 

 locality by that name in either Chile or Bolivia. There is, however, 

 in Peru just one Guasacona, a hacienda of 221 (Resumen * * * habi- 

 tantes del Peru en 1876, 1878, p. 104) or 427 (Soldan, Dice, geogr. 

 estad. Peru, 1877, p. 427) inhabitants. Telmatobius marmoratus 

 has been recorded from Chile by Werner (1897, p. 263), Jsut this is 

 most probably a case of misidentification. There is no good evidence 

 to show that any specimens of T. marmoratus besides the types have 

 ever been taken. 



