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wish orange. The specimens from 18 kilometers east of Dos Aguas were found on July 22, 1960, by Floyd L. Downs and John Winklemann, who collected calling males of _Tomodactylus rufescens_ and _Tomodactylus nitidus petersi_ at the same locality. Downs (_personal communication_) stated the call was a single note. At Dos Aguas I heard _T. rufescens_ give two calls, one a single "peep," the other a triple note--"pee-ee-eep." In the higher parts of the Sierra de Coalcoman _Tomodactylus rufescens_ seems to fill the same niche as _T. angustidigitorum_ does in the Cordillera Volcanica. At lower elevations in their respective mountain ranges the species occur sympatrically with _T. nitidus petersi_. ~Diaglena reticulata~ Taylor _Diaglena reticulata_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28:60, May 15, 1942.--Cerro Arenal, Oaxaca, Mexico. Nueva Italia (3); Ostula (7). Until recently frogs of the genus _Diaglena_ were known only from a few specimens from southern Sinaloa (_Diaglena spatulata_) and from the Pacific lowlands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (_Diaglena reticulata_). Peters (1955a) reported specimens from Ostula, Michoacan, and compared these specimens with one _D. reticulata_ from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, and four _D. spatulata_ from Sinaloa. This comparison showed that the specimens from Michoacan, although showing some minor differences from _D. reticulata_, are closer to that species than to _D. spatulata_. Subsequent to Peters' work, series of both species of _Diaglena_, including additional specimens from Michoacan and from Colima, have been collected, and a more qualified comparison is now possible. In comparing specimens of _D. spatulata_ from southern Sinaloa (UMMZ 115322) with specimens of _D. reticulata_ from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca (UMMZ 115321), the differences noted by Taylor (1942c:60) were found to be constant. But specimens from Ostula, Michoacan (UMMZ 104418), and five individuals from Colima (TNHC 26379-83) were found to be intermediate in certain characters. The skin of the dorsum in _D. reticulata_ is granular; that in _D. spatulata_ is smooth. The skin in specimens from Ostula and Colima is slightly granular. The dorsal ground color of _D. reticulata_ is yellowish brown with dark reticulations; the dorsal ground color of _D. spatulata_ is olive-green. Specimens from Ostula and Colima most closely resemble those from Tehuantepec in coloration, but the reticulations are more coarse,
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