Produced by Chris Curnow, Carol Brown, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 17, No. 13, pp. 559-578, 3 pls. 17-19 Date, April 5, 1968 Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1968 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Frank B. Cross Volume 17, No. 13, pp. 559-578, 3 pls. 17-19 Published April 5, 1968 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1968 31-9420 Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN Biological exploration of Mexico and Central America has revealed the presence of a diverse fauna, elements of which have undergone speciation in separate areas within the relatively small region. Some genera of amphibians, especially _Eleutherodactylus_ and _Hyla_, are represented by many species having small geographic ranges in Mexico and Central America. Most of the species of _Hyla_ inhabiting the lowlands have been known to science for many years, and most of the novelties today are found in the less accessible highlands. No fewer than 19 new species of hylid frogs have been discovered and named from Mexico and Central America in the past decade. In the spring and summer of 1966 I studied hylid frogs in many parts of southern Mexico and Central America; the field work was designed to obtain specimens and data that would resolve certain systematic problems. To a certain extent the studies were successful, but in the course of the work five previously unknown hylids were discovered; these are named and described in this paper. The only species described herein that I do not know in life is one of _Plectrohyla_ that has been represented in museum collections for several years but was not obtained in my own field work. In this paper I am presenting diagnoses, descriptions, and brief comments on the relationships of five new species and one subspecies. More exhaustive accounts will be included in a monograph, now in preparation, on the Middle American hylids.