. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Natural history; Science. Fig. 8. Hemisus marm/yratvm .(Peters) .*' Ventral aspect of left feet to show individual variationMn development of "shovel" and length of digits. Sexually mature males average 32mm. in length (maximum, 34 mm.; minimum, 31 mm.). Gravid females average 47 mm. (maximum, 50 mm.; minimum, 45 mm.). Breeding males have a broad glandular surface covering the upper surfaces of the wrist and three inner fingers. No black asperities are visible on these surfaces. Adult males have a much darker throat than females o
. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Natural history; Science. Fig. 8. Hemisus marm/yratvm .(Peters) .*' Ventral aspect of left feet to show individual variationMn development of "shovel" and length of digits. Sexually mature males average 32mm. in length (maximum, 34 mm.; minimum, 31 mm.). Gravid females average 47 mm. (maximum, 50 mm.; minimum, 45 mm.). Breeding males have a broad glandular surface covering the upper surfaces of the wrist and three inner fingers. No black asperities are visible on these surfaces. Adult males have a much darker throat than females of the same size. A few of the adult females have a throat which approaches that of the adult male in color. The coloration of most of our specimens does not agree with that generally given for the species. The majority are dark reddish-brown above, spotted with yellow on the sides of the body and on the upper surfaces of the appendages. Some of the specimens lack the spots entirely and are grayer, less reddish than the others. All of the speci- mens except one have the ventral surface exclusive of the gular region immaculate. This one (No. 8935) has the ventral surface chocolate- brown spotted with pale yellow. It is interesting that this peculiar colora- tion should be correlated with a small "shovel" and elongate tibia and foot with the ends of the digits devoid of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921; American Museum of Natural History. New York : [American Museum of Natural History]
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