_Remarks._--Smith (1953:150) named _cyanosticta_ as a subspecies of _Hyla phaeota_. The differences in cranial characters and certain external characters between _phaeota_ and _cyanosticta_ indicate that they are distinct species. Furthermore, a gap of about 350 kilometers exists between the known geographic ranges of the two kinds. _Distribution._--_Smilisca cyanosticta_ inhabits wet forests on the Atlantic slope of southern Mexico and northern Central America from northern Oaxaca and southern Veracruz through northern Chiapas in Mexico and into El Peten and northern Alta Verapaz in Guatemala (Fig. 2). Apparently the range is discontinuous, for in southern Mexico the species is found in cloud forest at elevations of 830 to 900 meters on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Juarez. In the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz the species is found in wet forest at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters, but is absent in the intervening lowlands characterized by drier forest. In the west forests of northern Alta Verapaz and El Peten, Guatemala, the species is found at low elevations. _Specimens examined._--78, as follows: MEXICO: =Chiapas=: Monte Libano, MCZ 28271-9; 8 km. N San Fernando, 24 km. NE Tuxtla Gutierrez, UIMNH 41588. =Oaxaca=: 11 km. N Vista Hermosa, KU 84918-20 (skeletons), 87198-212, 87647 (eggs), 87648-52 (tadpoles), 87653 (young), UIMNH 57199-201; 8 km. S Yetla, KU 87213, UMMZ 124838 (8). =Veracruz=: Coyame, UMMZ 111459-60; between Coyame and Tebanco, UMMZ 121198; Dos Amates, UMMZ 121297; between Laguna de Catemaco and Volcan San Martin, UMMZ 121200; Volcan San Martin, UIMNH 35403-4, 35408-12, UMMZ 118163; SE slope Volcan San Martin, UMMZ 121199, 121295 (2), 121296, 121298. GUATEMALA: =Alta Verapaz=: Chinaja, KU 55935-7, 55938 (skeleton). =El= =Peten=: 10 km. NNW Chinaja (Alta Verapaz), KU 55934; Piedras Negras, CNHM 99006-7, 99227, UIMNH 28853, USNM 111139-41, 111143-7; 8 km. S Piedras Negras, CNHM 99008; Semicoch, USNM 35907. [Illustration: FIG. 2. Map showing locality records for _Smilisca cyanosticta_ (triangles) and _Smilisca phaeota_ (circles).] =Smilisca phaeota= (Cope)