478 BOULENGER. 



21. Rana cseruleopunctata. 



Rana ccervleopunctata Steind., Verb. Zool.-bot., Ges. Wien, XIV, 1864, 

 p. 264, PI. XV, fig. 1; BouLENG., Cat. Batr. Ecaud., p. 50 (1882); Gunth., 

 Biol. C.-Am., Rept., p. 205 (1900); Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. N. H. (9), III, 

 1919, p. 412; Noble, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. XXXVIII, 1918, p. 318. 



Ranula ccervleopunctata Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1866, p. 130. 



Ranula chrysoprasina Cope, 1. c. 



Hylarana cceruleopunctata Steind., Novara, Amph., p. 48 (1867). 



Trypheropsis chrysoprasinus Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1868, p. 117, and Journ. 

 Ac. Philad., (2) VIII, 1876, p. 114, PI. xxiii, fig. 12. 



Hylarana chrysoprasina Brocchi, Min. Sc. Mex., Batr. p. 65 (1882). 



Rana chrysoprasina Bouleng., op. cit., p. 49. 



Vomerine teeth in oblique groups or short series between the choanae 

 and extending beyond the level of the posterior borders of the latter 

 or entirely behind them, equally distant from each other and from the 

 choanse or nearer each other; sometimes very indistinct. 



Head as long as broad or a little longer than broad, much depressed; 

 snout rounded or obtusely pointed, moderately or feebly projecting 

 beyond the mouth, as long as the eye; can thus rostralis strong; loreal 

 region vertical or nearly so, slightly concave; nostril a little nearer 

 the tip of the snout than the eye ; distance between the nostrils greater 

 than the interorbital width wliich is equal to or a little less than that 

 of the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, | to | the diameter of 

 the eye, 1^ to 3 times its distance from the latter. 



Fingers moderate, the tips swollen, first longer than the second, 

 third longer than the snout; subarticular tubercles large, prominent. 



Hind limb moderately long, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 

 the eye or between the eye and the tip of the snout, the heels strongly 

 overlapping where the limbs are folded at right angles to the ^ body; 

 tibia 5 to 6 times as long as broad, If to 2 times in length from snout 

 to vent, shorter than the fore limb, as long as or a little longer than the 

 foot. Toes with the tips divided into small disks, | to f webbed, the 

 web reaching the disks of the third and fifth but leaving 2 or 3 phal- 

 anges of fourth free; outer metatarsals separated nearly to the base; 

 subarticular tubercles moderate; no tarsal fold; inner metatarsal 

 tubercle oval or elliptic, j to f the length of the inner toe; a round outer 

 tubercle. 



Skin smooth or finely granulate above, or with pearl-like tubercles 

 on the posterior part of the back; a narrow glandular dorso-lateral 



