ar dark brown mottling and transverse
bars on the limbs. The interorbital bar, the upper arms, and the tips of
the dorsal pustules were pale orange; the iris was pale grayish gold
(Pl. 3, Fig. 2).

~Tomodactylus nitidus nitidus~ (Peters)

_Liuperus nitidus_ Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p.
878, 1869.--Izucar de Matamoras, Puebla, Mexico.

_Tomodactylus amulae_ Guenther, Biologia Centrali-Americana,
Reptilia and Batrachia, p. 219, April, 1900.--Amula,
Guerrero, Mexico.

_Tomodactylus nitidus nitidus_, Dixon, Texas Jour. Sci.,
9:385, December, 1957.

Copuyo (15); Tuxpan (8); Tzitzio (11).

One specimen from Tzitzio (UMMZ 99155) was referred to _Tomodactylus
nitidus petersi_ by Dixon (1957:390). A re-examination of this specimen,
and examination of ten others from the same locality (UMMZ 121571)
reveals that the relatively small size of the tympanum and absence of
dense ventral spotting place these specimens closer to _T. nitidus
nitidus_ than to _T. nitidus petersi_.

The specimens from Tuxpan (UMMZ 114303-4) had in life a gray to olive
tan ground color with dark olive-green markings, bright yellow thighs
with olive-green transverse bands, yellowish tan shanks with olive-green
bars, yellow groin, white inguinal glands with black markings, grayish
white belly with scattered brownish black spots in some specimens, and a
deep golden iris (Pl. 4, Fig. 1). These specimens were found calling
from bushes in a rocky field at an elevation of 1800 meters. The call is
a high-pitched "pee-ee-eep."

~Tomodactylus nitidus orarius~ Dixon

_Tomodactylus nitidus orarius_ Dixon, Texas Jour. Sci.,
9:392, December, 1957.--4.5 miles southwest of Tecolapa,
Colima, Mexico.

La Placita (3); Pomaro.

These specimens, referred to _Tomodactylus petersi_ by Duellman
(1954b:5), were included in _T. nitidus orarius_ by Dixon (1957:392).
Color notes based on living individuals from Tecolapa, Colima (UMMZ
114312 and 116922), are: gray above mottled with brown; venter dirty
white; anterior and posterior surfaces of thighs bright yellow; iris
pale golden (Pl. 4, Fig. 2). The call is a soft "braa" usually followed
by three high notes: "braaa-eep-ee-eep." In Michoacan this subspecies
has been found only in the coastal region and the lower foothills of the
Sierra de Coalcoman, an area in which it replaces _Tomodactylus nitidus
petersi_. This is the only _Tomodactylus_ known