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Gomphobates Kröyeri Reinhardt et Lütken, 1. c., p. 176. 
Leiuperus albonotatus Steindachner, Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1864. p. 275, 
tab. XVI, fig. 4—4 c et p. 551. 
! Leiuperus ephippifer Steindachner, 1. c., p. 277, tab. XIY, fig. 1—1 e et tab. 
XYI, fig. 5 (sec. spec. typ.). 
Paludicola notata Peters, Monatsber. Beri. Ac., 1872, p. 223. 
Paludicola biligonigera Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 234. 
Paludicola Kröyeri Boulenger, 1. c., p. 235. 
Paludicola signifera Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) Vili, 1891, p. 454. 
Two specimens ; 22 mm., the young 17*5 mm. from snout to vent. 
Description . Body elongate, raniform. Tongue small, elliptic, entire. 
Vomerine teeth noûe. Head small, broader than long. Snout short, rounded, 
with rounded canthus rostralis; once and one third the width of the eye; 
nostril slightly nearer to the eye than the diameter of the latter, much 
nearer to the tip of the snout. Interorbital space as broad as the upper 
eyelid. Tympanum conceiled, about one third the width of the eye. Fingers 
moderate, free, with blunt tips; first shorter than second, the latter equal 
with the fourth; two well separated metacarpal tubercles, the inner nar¬ 
rower, the outer broader and more roundish; palmar surface granulated 
subarticular tubercles strong, subconical. Toes moderate, with a slight 
rudiment of web ; third toe slightly longer than fifth ; subarticular tuber¬ 
cles as below the fingers, but slightly feebler ; along the metatarsals distinct 
tubercles ; two w r ell developed, shovel-shaped, compressed metatarsal tu¬ 
bercles, the inner elliptic, the outer roundish and distinctly broader,* 
both without a horny edge ; a white tiped conical tarsal tubercle, twice 
as far from the inner metatarsal tubercle than the latter from the outer 
one. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the anterior corner of the eye. Skin 
smooth or with some minute flat w^arts, fine pores and a few very fine 
sinuous folds above ; a glandular fold extending from behind the eye to 
groin, an other very fine fold from eye to arm ; a slight fold between the 
inner metatarsal and the tarsal tubercle ; a distinct discoidal fold. 
shoulder ; — all being characters, which are not to be found in Paludicola signi¬ 
fera Gir., but well agree with those of Paludicola albifrons Spix. 
Pleuroclema biligonigera Cope (Proc. Ac. Philad., 1862, p. 352) also does not 
belong to the species mentioned above, of which Cope himself says that «it is 
probably one of Günther’ s varieties of Pleuroclema, Bibronii .» Just because Cope 
ranges it in the genus Pleurodema — which is furnished with vomerine teeth — 
it seems impossible to unite it with Paludicola signifera Gir. 
* In Paludicola gracilis Blgr. (= Gomphobates notatus Hensel [nec Reinh. 
et Lütk.]) the outer metatarsal tubercle subconical and much smaller than 
the inner one (I have Hensel’ s type examined from the Museum of Berlin and 
two specimen of Paludicola gracilis Blgr. from Rio Grande do Sul through the 
kindness Mr. Boulenger’ s). 
