.5 | 19.0-24.9 | 28.5-33.5
| | (9.9) | (21.1) | (31.0)
| | | |
40 |27 | 7.0-11.5 | 15.0-23.0 | 23.0-34.5
| | (9.1) | (22.0) | (31.2)
| | | |
43 |10 | 8.0-12.0 | 11.0-17.0 | 20.0-26.0
| | (10.2) | (13.5) | (23.7)
| | | |
45 |16 | 10.0-12.0 | 1.0-7.0 | 12.0-17.0
| | (11.2) | (3.4) | (14.6)
| | | |
46 |45 | 11.0-13.0 | |
| | (11.8) | |

In life, dorsum yellowish tan with gray-brown mottling; belly and
ventrolateral surfaces silvery-gold or white; black stripe from tip of
snout to eye; two black blotches below eye, another blotch extending
from eye to base of caudal musculature; caudal musculature and fins
gray-brown. In preservative, yellowish tan and silvery-gold colors
lost; black reticulations present on tail.

_Remarks._--Cope (1876:105) described _Hyla elaeochroa_ from Sipurio,
Limon Province, Costa Rica. He based his description on a small
specimen, 26.0 mm. in snout-vent length, having a dorsum uniformly
colored and lacking an interorbital triangle and blotches on the
thighs. Cope (1887) described pigmented specimens from Nicaragua as
_Hyla quinquevittata_, which he diagnosed as having dark brown bars on
the hind limbs and five dark brown longitudinal stripes on the dorsum,
the median one of which was expanded anteriorly so as to form a large
triangular spot between the eyes. He thought this species was related
to _Hyla eximia_ Baird and noted that "the hinder legs are much larger;
the muzzle is more acuminate and the color bands are much wider" than
in _eximia_. Cope did not compare _quinquevittata_ with _elaeochroa_,
which he had described ten years before. Guenther (1901:268), Noble
(1918:340), and Nieden (1923:251) regarded both _elaeochroa_ and
_quinquevittata_ as valid species. Dunn and Emlen (1932:25) regarded
both as synonyms of _Hyla rubra_, but they made no qualifying
statements. Taylor (1952:859) placed _quinquevittata_ as a synonym of
_elaeochroa_ and indicated that _rubra_ was another species.

Taylor (1958:37) described _Hyla dulcensis_ from the humid tropical
forests of Golfo Dulce, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. He thought
this species was "related to _H. elaeochroa