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Habitat.— Although originally recorded by Halhnvell as from 

 "Japan," this species is confined to the Riu Kins, for the original 

 label, with the locality '^Ousima, Japan," is still in the bottle with 

 Hallowell's types of Ixalus japonicus. Boulenger, in referring the 

 species to Rana, redescribed and renamed it (as there was already 

 another Rana japonica) from a specimen in the British Museum, 

 obtained by Lieut. Alfred Carpenter, R. N., at "Oho Shima," and 

 he has since recorded its occurrence in Okinawa shima.« Two speci- 

 mens in the Science College Museum (Nos. 24 A and (i) p 2) from the 

 latter locality have been examined by me and compared with Hal- 

 lowell's types. 



List of specimens of Polypedates japonicus. 



"Type; description, p. 155; flgs. 148-1.53. 



h Description, p. 156. 



POLYPEDATES LEUCOMYSTAX b ( Gravenhorst). 



1829. Hyla leucomystax Gravenhorst, Delic. Miis. Vratislav., p. 26 (type-local- 

 ity, Java; type in Breslau Mus.; Kuhl, coWeciov). —Rhacophorus leuco- 

 mystax Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 29 (southern China 

 and eastern Himalayas to Malay peninsula and archipelago). 



1829. Hyla sexvirgata Gravenhorst, Delic. Mus. Vratislav., p. 28 (type-locality, 

 Java; type in Breslau Mus.; Reinwardt, collector). 



1835. Hyla quadrilineata Wiegmann, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. Carol., XVII, Pc. 

 1, p. 260, pi. XXII, fig. 1 (type-locality, Manila, P. I.; Meyen, collector). 



1841. Polypedates rugosus Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., VIII, p. 520 (type- 

 localities, Java and Manila; types in Paris Mus.). 



1858. Polypedates maculatus Guenther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 78 (part: 

 China; Philippines). 



1860. Polypedates megacephalus Hallo well, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 507 

 (type-locality, Hongkong). 



1882. Rhacophorus maculatus \ar. quadrilineata Bovi,v:nger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Hril. 

 Mus., p. 84 (Singapore, Java, Philippines, Formosa). 



1885. Hylorana longipes Fischer, Archiv Naturg., LI, Pt. 1, p. 47 (type-locality, 

 Pagat, southeast Borneo; type in Brit. Mus.; Grabowsky, collector). 



1889. Rhacophorus leucomystax var. sexvirgata Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 1889, p. 30. 



Description. — Adult female; Brit. Mus. No. 79.6.20.27; Formosa; 

 Matthew Dickson, collector. Vomerine teeth in two nearl}^ straight 



a Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, p. 302. 



b From XevKoS, bright, white; /^u(3ra^, upper lip. 



