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PARATYPES.--Nos. 30909-30911, 30913, 31539, 31540, 31543-31546, Turrialba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica; Edward H. Taylor; June 26-July 3, 1951. Nos. 30912, 31534-31538, data same as on holotype. Nos. 31541 and 31542, Los Diamantes, 1 kilometer east of Guápiles, Limón Province, Costa Rica; Edward H. Taylor; July 26, 1951.

~Plectrohyla brachycephala~ Taylor [= Plectrohyla matudai brachycephala Taylor, according to Bumzahem and Smith (Herpetologica, 10:62, 1954)], Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1437:16, fig. 6, December 7, 1949.

PARATYPE.--No. 28079, Tributary of Rio Ostuta, foot of Sierra Madre, between Sierra Madre and Cerro Atravesado, Oaxaca, México; Thomas C. MacDougall; 1948.

NOTE.--Received in exchange; formerly American Museum of Natural History No. A 53758.

~Phyllomedusa saltator~ (Taylor)--See Agalychnis saltator Taylor.

~Ptychohyla chamulae~ Duellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:354, pl. 25, fig. 2, April 27, 1961.

HOLOTYPE.--No. 58063, 6.2 kilometers by road south of Rayón Mescalapa, Chiapas, México; William E. Duellman, Dale L. Hoyt, and John Wellman; August 5, 1960.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 58064-58073, data same as on holotype.

~Smilisca wellmanorum~ (Taylor)--See Hyla wellmanorum Taylor.

~Teratohyla spinosa~ (Taylor)--See Centrolenella spinosa Taylor.

~Tomodactylus saxatilis~ Webb, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15:177, fig. 1, March 7, 1962.

HOLOTYPE.--No. 63326, 8 miles west of El Palmito, Sinaloa, México; Robert G. Webb; June 23, 1961.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 63327-63333, data same as on holotype.

TESTUDINES

~Gopherus flavomarginatus~ Legler, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 11:337, fig. 1, pls. 7-8, April 24, 1959.

PARATYPE.--No. 39415 (carapace only), 8 miles east and 2 miles south of Americanos, Coahuila, Mexico; Robert W. Dickerman; May 19, 1954.

~Pseudemys scripta taylori~ Legler, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:75, figs. 1-3, pls. 9-12; August 16, 1960.

HOLOTYPE.--No. 46952, 16 kilometers south of Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México; John M. Legler, September 6, 1958.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 46932-46951, 46953-46969, data same as on holotype. Nos. 46970-46974, 6 miles west of Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico; John M. Legler; September 3-6, 1958. No. 46976, Río Chiquito, 10 kilometers south of Cuatro Ciénegas; John M. Legler; September 9, 1958.

~Trionyx ater~ Webb and Legler, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 40:21, pls. 1-2, April 20, 1960.

HOLOTYPE.--No. 46903, 16 kilometers south of Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; John M. Legler, Wendell L. Minckley, and Robert B. Wimmer; September 6, 1958.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 46904-46906, 46908-46912, data same as on holotype.

~Trionyx muticus calvatus~ Webb, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 11:519, pls. 13-14, fig. 1, August 14, 1959.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 47117-47119, Pearl River, 1 mile south to 4 miles north of Monticello, Lawrence County, Mississippi; Robert G. Webb; April 10, 1957.

~Trionyx spinifera pallidus~ Webb, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:522, pls. 39-40, February 16, 1962.

PARATYPES.--Nos. 2934, 2947, 2966, 2967, 2973, Lewisville, Lafayette County, Arkansas; R. E. McEntyre; May 1, 1926. Nos. 40175 and 40176, Lake Texoma, 2 miles east of Willis, Marshall County, Oklahoma; John M. Legler; summer, 1955. No. 50832, 4 miles southwest of Kingston, Mouth of Caney Creek, Marshall County, Oklahoma; Virgil Dowell; summer, 1954.

SAURIA

~Alopoglossus plicatus~ Taylor [= Ptychoglossus plicatus (Taylor), according to Ruibal, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106:501, 1952], Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33:272, fig. 1, August 20, 1949.

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