s;
interorbital bar present _H. staufferi staufferi_

Dorsum gray with complete dorsolateral and paravertebral stripes;
longitudinal stripe on shank; interorbital bar absent
_H. staufferi altae_

Key to Known Tadpoles

1. Entire lower beak black; beaks moderate-sized, serrate; dorsal
fin high, extending to middle of back 2

No more than half of lower beak black; beaks small, finely serrate;
dorsal fin lower, barely extending onto body 3

2. Papillae present only laterally _H. boulengeri_
Papillae present laterally and ventrally _H. foliamorta_

3. Distinct brown stripe from nostril to eye; two stripes below
eye, _H. elaeochroa_

Faint stripe from nostril to eye; no stripe below eye
_H. staufferi_

ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES

_Hyla boulengeri_ (Cope)

_Scytopis boulengeri_ Cope, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32:12, December
1, 1887 [Holotype.--USNM 13974, from "Nicaragua"; J. A. McNiel,
collector].

_Hyla boulengeri:_ Guenther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia
and Batrachia, p. 267, June 1901. Noble, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist, 38:339, June 1918. Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35:856,
July 1, 1952.

_Diagnosis._--Size large (Male to 49 mm., Female to 53 mm.); skull as
long as wide; frontoparietal fontanelle present; snout subacuminate;
canthus not pronounced; choanae large; tongue cordiform, slightly
longer than broad; interorbital triangle tubercular; skin on dorsum
tuberculate; tarsal fold reduced or absent; thighs, shanks, and tarsi
boldly barred with dark brown and pale yellow-green in life.

_Description._--Head flattened, longer than wide; snout projecting
beyond lower lip; loreal region oblique; canthus not pronounced; length
of eye less than interorbital distance; tympanum large, about 70 per
cent of diameter of eye; interorbital triangle distinct; arms short;
fingers lacking web; palmar tubercle tripartite; subarticular tubercles
distinct; long tubercle on base of first finger; discs truncate; legs
long; tarsal fold reduced or absent; inner metatarsal tubercle rounded,
larger than outer, both elevated; subarticular tubercles distinct; one
phalanx free of web on second, third,