150 



BULLETIN 58. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dimensioji^. 



mm. 



Total length, tip of snout to vent 65 



Width of head 23 



Interorbital space 7. 5 



Upper eyelid 5 



Diameter of eye 6.5 



Diameter of tympanum 4 



Diameter of largest finger disk 5 



Fore leg 38 



Hind leg, vent to tip of longest toe 90 



Tibia ! 27 



Habitat. — Thus far found only on the southern group of the Riu 

 Kius. The United States National Museum has a fine series from 

 Ishigaki shima. The specimen collected by Doctor Warburg, in 

 1891, in Miyako shima, and now in the Hamburg Museum (No. 534) 

 belongs probably to the present form. 



List of specimens of Polypedates owstoni. 



n Type. 



POLYPEDATES BUERGERI" (Schlegel). 



Plate XII. 



1838. Hyla buergeri Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Rept., p. 113, Sauri. et Batr., pi. iii, 

 figs. 7-8'' (type-locality, Japan; types in Leiden Mus, ; Buerger, collec- 

 tor). — Schlegel, Abbild. Amph., 1844, p. 140, pi, l, fig. 5 (Japan; colored 



a To Doctor Buerger, the companion and successor of von Siebold in the exploration 

 of the fauna of Japan. 



i* Reproduced in this work on Plate XII. 



