A NEW BROMELIAD FROG OF THE GENUS ELEUT HEROD ACTYLUS FROM COSTA RICA Jay M. Savage Department of Biological Sciences and Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles On the evening of February 4, 1963, accompanied by Professor John L. Mohr and Richard S. Casebeer of the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Southern California, I visited the famous bird collecting locality (Carriker, 1910) at La Hondura, Provincia de San Jose, Costa Rica. The area is little changed since Carriker's day and as it was the middle of the dry season relatively few amphibians were taken. Just before returning to San Jose for the night, Dr. Mohr suggested that we examine some bromeliads that he had located. The first bromeliad contained only the common Eleu-therodactylus diastema, but another plant produced two small frogs, one an E. diastema. The other example had a brilliant green body and bright red-orange head and eyes, and appeared to represent a species not previously known from Central America. Subsequent study has confirmed this original impression and the single speci-men must be regarded as being from an undescribed species popula-tion. The new form will be called. Eleutherodactylus moro, new species Figure i Holotype: Costa Rican series number 765, University of Southern California. Type Locality: Costa Rica: Provincia de San Jose: Canton de Coronado: La Hondura, 1245 meters (4085 feet). Diagnosis: A species differing from all known Central American members of the genus in the striking life colors of red and green. Apparently related to the Eleutherodactylus diastema group (dias-tema Cope, 1875; hylaeformis Cope, 1875; vocator Taylor, 1955) with which it shares the character of weakly T-shaped terminal phalanges. E. moro differs from diastema and its allies and the other io6
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