Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1904)
Méhely, L.: Investigations on Paraguayan Batrachians
L. Y. MÉH ELY separated series between the choanae ; latters smaller than in Hi/la boans DAUD. Snout rounded, slightly longer than the diameter of the orbit, once and a half as long as the diameter of the eye. Nostril as far from the anterior corner of the eye as the diameter of the latter ; canthus rostralis more or less angular, slightly inwards curved ; tympanum at the most two thirds the diameter of the eye : interorbital space broader than the upper ej'elid. The three outer fingers one fourth webbed, between the inner and the second only a slight margin ; toes three fourths webbed ; disks two thirds the diameter of the tympanum ; inner metatarsal tubercle oval, the outer absent; tibio-tarsal aticulation reaches much (with one fourth or one fifth of the length of tibia) beyond the tip of the snout.* Skin smooth above, granular on the belly and under the thighs. A narrow glandular fold above the tympanum from the posterior corner of the eye nearly to the middle of the flank ; a slight fold from the inner metatarsal tubercle along the tarsus, another on the hinder side of the forearm more or less distinct. Coloration. Reddish-brown above with more or less distinct, sometimes nearly absent dark bands across the head, back and flanks ; on two specimens in longitudinal bands arranged on head and back, on one specimen an undulated dark vertebral stripe. Limbs with dark cross-bands, which extend to. and are blackish-red on the hinder side of the thighs. Above the anal cleft no white cross-bar as distinct on Hi/la boans DAUD. from Surinam, which 1 have investigated through the kindness of Dr. STEINDACHNER. Hinder edge of the fifth toe white, extending as a stripe to the tibia; a similar stripe on the hinder side of the forearm. Sides of head dark, the postorbital fold blackish. Under surface whitish, lower lip white, throat and breast more or less mottled with brown. The described specimens differing from BOULENGER'S Argentinian examples by its smaller tympanum, larger disks and much longer hind limbs and could be perhaps regarded as a distinct variety. 17. Hyla venulosa LAUR. Hanu venulosa LAURENTI, Syn. Kept.. 1768, p. 31. Hyla venulesn STEINDACHNER, Exp. Novara, Amphib., 1869, p. 58, tab. Ill, fig. 18; BOULENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 364. Two males (78 and 80 mm.) and a female (63 mm.) agreeing strictly with the descriptions and Dr. STEINDACHNER' S splendid figure. Males uni* The same proportion is present on a specimen from Lugne (Paraguay), which I have received from Count PEKACCA. On BOULENGER'S specimens from Argentinia the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches only the tip of the snout.
