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San Martin, Veracruz, had bronze eyes. The use of the trinomial here is arbitrary. Frogs of the _Eleutherodactylus rugulosus_ group in Mexico (_rugulosus_, _avocalis_, and _vocalis_) exhibit only slight differences in size, proportions, and coloration (Duellman, 1958c:6). Furthermore, the named populations are allopatric. _Eleutherodactylus rugulosus vocalis_, as defined by Duellman (_loc. cit._), occurs in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental and associated ranges from central Sinaloa southward into Michoacan. ~Tomodactylus angustidigitorum~ Taylor _Tomadactylus angustidigitorum_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26:494, November 27, 1940.--Quiroga, Michoacan, Mexico. Angahuan (6); Apo; Carapan (21); 19 km. S of Carapan (13); Cerro Tancitaro (12); Cheran; Corupu (14); Cuseno Station (14); Opopeo (3); Paracho (11); Paricutin (2); Patzcuaro (3); Quiroga (59); San Juan de Parangaricutiro (16); Tancitaro (25); Uruapan (8); Zacapu (11). This species is indigenous to the pine-oak forests on the southern rim of the Mexican Plateau, and has been collected at elevations from 1500 to 2500 meters. Males have been observed to call from rocks, rock fences, clumps of grass, and low bushes; the call is a single "peep." At San Juan de Parangaricutiro numerous specimens were found in the daytime beneath adobe bricks and lava on the volcanic ash derived from Volcan Paricutin; at Paracho individuals were found by day beneath rocks in a pine forest. In most specimens the dorsum is dark reddish brown, and the prominent inguinal glands are cream-color or pale orange (Pl. 3, Fig. 1). Of eight individuals collected at Paracho, one was reddish brown, two were pinkish tan, three were dark brown, and two were black. ~Tomodactylus fuscus~ Davis and Dixon _Tomodactylus fuscus_ Davis and Dixon, Herpetologica, 11:157, July 15, 1955.--1.5 miles southeast of Huitzilac, Morelos, Mexico. Los Cantiles (2); 28 km. E of Morelia. The range of this species includes the Sierra Ajusco in Mexico and Morelos and thence westward to the Serrania Ucareo in Michoacan. The specimen from 28 kilometers east of Morelia was found in an oak forest on a steep hillside at an elevation of 2100 meters. One from Los Cantiles was calling from a steep cliff at an elevation of 2200 meters in pine-oak forest. This specimen (UMMZ 119156) in life had a pale olive-brown dorsum with irregul
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