. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 1. Stephopaedes loveridgei sp. n. Dorsal as- pect of holotype BM , from Mahenge, Tan- zania. Natural size. The currently available material shows al- lometry in the head width/body length relationship, the head becoming relatively narrower the longer the specimen (average head width/body length at length of 27 mm, at length of 37 mm). Tanzanian and Zimbabwean material form a single regression line. Description of type material. Showing the features of the genus, as discussed above. Two phal
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 1. Stephopaedes loveridgei sp. n. Dorsal as- pect of holotype BM , from Mahenge, Tan- zania. Natural size. The currently available material shows al- lometry in the head width/body length relationship, the head becoming relatively narrower the longer the specimen (average head width/body length at length of 27 mm, at length of 37 mm). Tanzanian and Zimbabwean material form a single regression line. Description of type material. Showing the features of the genus, as discussed above. Two phalanges of third toe free of main webbing, although edge of web very serrated, making determination imprecise. Outer metatarsal tubercle rounded, or less length of inner. Adult dorsal skin (known only from females) densely cov- ered with light-tipped spines which sur- mount small, warty bases; larger warts over lateral and urostylar areas and on dorsal surfaces of legs have rosettes of spines, oth- erwise the spines are single. Dense cov- ering of minute conical asperities conspic- uous on the lip of the vent, even in immature specimens of both sexes. Markings (in alcohol): top of head, pa- rotid glands and central region of back a light brown; darker brown laterally. A dark middorsal V -shaped marking in the scap- ular region, apex pointing anteriorly, arms usually continuing posteriorly to mark the. Figure 2. Stephopaedes loveridgei sp. n. Dorsal as- pect of paratype BM , from Mahenge, Tan- zania. Natural size. inner margins of the parotid glands. Also a thin, often broken, dark interocular bar, and a pair of darker sacral spots. A fine light line overlying the urostyle. Dorsal markings are faintly shown in the holo- type; the paratypes show the sacral, scap- ular, and interocular markings more clear- ly (Fig. 2). Ventral surface immaculate or with a single, elongated dark fleck in the anterior pectoral region. There are no reg- ular ventral markings, nor the frec
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