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pronounce them all //. arhorea savignyi. From the text (pp. 250- 

 251) it is evident that his reason for this is that there are spotted 

 specimens found in the western series as well as unspotted ones among 

 those from eastern Asia. It is quite possible that the unspotted 

 specimens may be somewhat difficult to distinguish, but in the spot- 

 ted ones the angular shoulder spots of the Japanese and Korean 

 specimens seem to be almost diagnostic. In our plain-colored speci- 

 mens, moreover, I can always detect dusky bars across the tarsus, 

 and I would also call attention to the .dark spot on the upper lip 

 under the anterior portion of the eye which is found in many of the 

 eastern specimens. Under these circumstances I think it prefer- 

 able to follow Boettger in maintaining the old status of //. arhorea 

 japonica as a distinguishable form.'* 



Figs. 62-67.— IIyla arborea japonica. IJ X nat. size. 62, top of head; 63, side of head; 64, open 

 mouth; 65, underside of hand; 66, top of finger, side view; 67, underside of foot. No. 23542, 

 U.S.N.M. 



Description (figs. 62-67) .—Adult feinale; U.S.N.M., No. 31926; 

 Kochi,'Province of Tosa, Shikoku; May 11, 1903; Dr. Hugh M. Smith, 

 collector. Vomerine teeth in two nearly straight, short series between 

 the choanse; tongue large, broadly oval, somewhat truncate behind, 

 with a slight median incision; nostrils somewhat nearer the tip of 

 the snout than the eye, their distance from each other shorter than 

 their distance from the labial edge, and still shorter than the inter- 



a What is Hyla cyanea Hallowell, Proc. Phil. Acad. , 1860, p. 494, from ' 'Loo Choo " ? 

 All he says is: " Hyla cyanea Daudin (young). One specimen." There is great confu- 

 sion in this paper of Hallowell's (for instance, Polypedates vindis and hurgerii. p. 501, 

 under Japan instead of Loo-Choo; Ophthalmidium tenue, p. 497, from Hongkong, China, 

 under Japan), and it is quite possible that this reference to a young IIyla cyanea is 

 only a duplication of the Australian record, p. 490: "Hyla cyanea Daud. One 

 specimen. Sidney (young). Taken Dec, 1853," which got misplaced. I may add 

 that Boulenger refers it with a query to Rhacophorus viridis (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1887, p. 149). 



