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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 147.— Polype- 

 da t e s EIFFIN- 

 GERi. About IJ 

 X NAT. SIZE. Vo- 

 merine TEETH. 

 Sketch by au- 

 thor from 



TYPE IN SENCK- 



ENBERG Museum. 



Original description of type> specimen. — Adult female: Museum 

 Senckenbero^ianum, No. 1074a; Riu Kiu Islands. — Vomerine series 

 between the choana?, feebly developed, small, oval, separated b}^ a 

 very wide interval; head broader than body, short, 

 very broad; snout short triangular, anteriorly trun- 

 cated; eye larger and more protruding than in P. 

 huergeri (Schlegel) ; all other characters as in the latter, 

 but the back less warty, a small white tubercle on the 

 tibio-tarsal joint and a series of smaller, isolated white 

 tubercles along the posterior edge of the lower arm and 

 the tarsus, and the posterior legs shorter; the adpressed 

 hind leg reaches with the tibio-tarsal joint to the ante- 

 rior border of the eye (in P. huergeri to the nostril or to 

 the tip of the snout) ; the digital disks somewhat smaller than the 

 tympanum. Color ([uite similar, but the posterior aspect of the femur 

 lighter, brownish yellow, with large blackish spots and marblings. 



Dimensions. 



mm. 



Length of head and body 35 



Length of head 12. 5 



Width of head 14 



Tympanum 2. 25 



Fore leg 22 



Hind leg 57 



Tibia 18 



Largest digital disk 2« 



Habitat. — -Thus far only known as occurring in the Riu Kiu Archi- 

 pelago at large. Ilallowell reports Polypedates hurgerii from ''Ou- 

 sima" and the "Loo Choo Islands," a record probably referable to the 

 present species. The origin of the type is not known exactly, as Mr. 

 Schmacker's Japanese collector visited all three groups in the Riu 

 Kius, but Doctor Boettger regards it as certain that the specimen in 

 (|uestion came either from the northern or the middle group, with the 

 probability in favor of the latter. 



List of spemnens of Polypedates eiffingeri. 



a Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 105. 



