Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1904)
Méhely, L.: Investigations on Paraguayan Batrachians
INVESTIGATIONS ON PARAGUAYAN BATRACHI ANS . ál 5 blackish-brown bands, 011 which ly black edged insuliform spots, covering the glands. Between the eyes a saddle- or W-shaped spot, commencing as a narrow stripe from the outer edge of the upper eyelid, widening and sometimes broken on the middle of the head. Behind the upper eyelid a cresentic or irregular spot. Two undulated bands issue from the scapular region, extending to thigs, pass over to the posterior half of the lumbar gland and spring over to the thighs and tibiae when the limbs are folded against the body. These undulated bands confluent in the middle line of the back on three points, viz. on the scapular region, the middle of the back and the sacral region, forming together a more or less distinct 8-form, with a distinct greyish-white spot in its anterior ring and a more unregular one in the larger posterior ring. From the hinder edge of this 8-form, which may be broken into more or less pieces in a different way, runs a dark branch over the posterior half of the lumbar gland, where it is nearly black and shows a large spot like an black eye, as 011 Eupemphix Nattereri STDR. (pl. XIII, tig. 8). Above the coccyx a short white stripe, on each side of which a dark-brown roundish spot, finely edged with white. Upper side of snout a triangular bright field, more or less marbled with dark ; sides of the head before, below and behind the eye with dark-brown, oblique (nearly vertical) bars : behind the axilla a darkbrown triangular blotch on the flank near to groin, with its tip directed backwards. Limbs cross barred, the bar in the middle of the thighs and tibiae broadest; between the bars run narrow dark lines. Lower surface white ; throat mottled with brown. Teeth. An exact investigation states very minute teeth, adherent with the inner surface of the maxilla, although the tips of teeth scarcely exceed the edge of the maxillary bone. The sternal apparatus is quite the same as in Paludicola sup titer a G in or Enpemphicc Nattereri STDR.. namely the omosternum forms a semiossified style with a slight cartilaginous dilatation on its end and the sternum consists in a bifid bony style (pl. XIII, fig. 7«), each of its branches furnished with a separate cartilaginous plate ( pl. XIII. fig. 7 b ). Paludicola fuscomaculata STDR. is the next relation of Paludicola a I bi fro ns SPIX. but the latter species — as I see on the type-specimens, received for investigation from the Museum of München — is smaller (25—28 mm. from snout to vent), with sligthly more pointed snout, longer hind limbs (the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the posterior corner or the centre of the eye), having the tubercle on the middle of the tarsus more developed and a second tarsal tubercle, close to the tibiotarsal articulation, bluntly subconical, larger than the first and also
