HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 

 List of specimens of Polypedates schlegelii. 



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U.S.N.M 23589 



Do 23500 



Do I 23591 



Do ' 30741 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Leidon . 



34370 

 34371 

 34372 

 34373 

 c ] 694 



Sex and 

 age. 



Locality. 



Female « . . 



do 



do.... 



Halfgrown 



Male 



do.... 



dob... 



......do.... 



When col- 

 lected. 



Yokohama, Hondo Sept., 



do do. 



do do. 



Miyazaki, Kiusiu 



Mount Fuji, Hondo 



do 



do 



do 



By whom collected 

 or from whom re- 

 ceived. 



May, 



1898 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



h. Stejneger. 



Do. 



Do. 

 C. A. Clark. 

 A. Owston. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Japan v. Siebold. 



o Description, p. 145 ; figs. 132-136. ft P. 146. c About 10 specimens. 



POLYPEDATES VIRIDIS « Hallowell. 



1860. Polypedates viridis Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 500 (type-local- 

 ity, Okinawa shima, Riu Kiu; type, U.S.N.M. No. 25397; W. Stimpson, 

 collector). Rhacophorus viridis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1887, p. 149 (" Loo Choo Islands; " Pryer collection). — Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. 

 Syst., VII, 1894, p. 865; author's separate, p. 16 (Okinawa shima). — 

 BoETTGER, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 106 (Okinawa 

 shima). — Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1902, June 11, p. 185 ("Loo Choo 

 Islands," probably Okinawa shima; Furness and Hiller, collectors). 



The relationship of this form to P. schlegelii is very close indeed, so 

 close that all my attempts to draw a hard and fast line based upon 

 differences in proportion betw een hind legs and total length, distance 

 of nostrils from 63^6, relative size of tympanum and large finger disks, 

 etc., have failed in a large series. It seems, however, that the narrow- 

 ness of the dermal margin of the digits in the northern form is a fairly 

 good characteristic, inasmuch as the fingers appear slenderer and the 

 disks consequently more differentiated, though in reality they are 

 relatively smaller than in the southern forms. It is also possible that 

 a larger series of the Okinawa form would show it to have slightly 

 longer hind limbs, although in the only specimen before me the tibia 

 is less than half the total length, notwithstanding the fact that the 

 specimen is very much hardened, with the back bent at nearly 60 de- 

 grees. This specimen has also a very weak inner metatarsal tubercle, 

 and the outer one is scarcely noticeable, and as Boulenger has also 

 commented upon the smallness and flatness of the former in the speci- 

 men examined by him, it may be that we here have an additional 

 character. 



Under these circumstances it is unnecessary to submit a detailed 

 description of this form, but a set of measurements of Science College 



a Latin word, signifying green. 



