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POLYPEDATES SCHLEGELII" Guenther. 



1858. Polypedates schlegelii Guenther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 81, pi. vi, 

 fig. c (type-locality, Japan; types in Brit. Mus.). — Martens, Preuss. 

 Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1866, p. Ill; 1876, p. 383 ( Yokohama).— 

 HiLGENDORK, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1880, p. 120 (Tokyo; 

 Tsukuba Mt., Hitatchi Prov.). — Rhacophorus schlegelii Boulenger, Cat. 

 Batr. Sal. Brit. Miis., 1882, p. 86, pi. ix, fig. 1 (Japan).— Okada, Cat. 

 Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 67 (Aizu, prov. Iwashiro; Tadam; Tokyo).— 

 Racophorns schlegelii Ikeda, Annot. Zool. Jap., I, Pt. 3, Aug. 1897, p. 113 

 (Aizu, prov. Iwashiro; Tokyo; breeding habits). 



1892. Rhacophorus schlegeli Boettger, Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg., p. 16 

 (HakoneMts.; Yokohama). 



Description. — Adult female; U.S.N.M. No. 23589; Yokohama, 

 Hondo; September, 1896; L. Stejneger, collector (figs. 132-136). 



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135 



133 



Figs. 132-136.— Polypedates schlegelh. IJ X nat. size. 132, top of head; 133, side of head; 134, 

 OPEN mouth; 135, underside of hand; 136, underside of foot. No. 23589, U.S.N.M. 



Vomerine teeth in two nearly straight series between and close to the 

 choanae, each series shorter than the distance between them; snout 

 declivous; nostrils slightly nearer the eye than the tip of snout; 

 interorbital space more than one and a half times the width of upper 

 eyelid; tympanum circular, about two-thirds the diameter of the eye; 

 fingers webbed, between third and fourth to distal end of basal phalanx, 

 the others at base only ; first finger much shorter than second, not even 

 reaching the disk of the latter; disks of second, third, and fourth fin- 

 gers large, about three-fourth the diameter of the tympanum, that of 



a Named in honor of Dr. Hermann Schlegel, director of the Rijksmuseum at Leiden, 

 and the chief author of the herpetological portion of "Fauna Japonica. " Born, Janu- 

 ary 19, 1804, in Altenburg, Germany; died in Leiden, January 17, 1884. 



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