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Diniensions. 



mm. 



From snout to vent 120 



Length of head _ 37 



Width of head 43 



Diameter of eye 12 



Interorbital width 11 



From eye to nostril 9 



From eye to end of snout 17 



Tympanum 8 



From eye to tympanum 5 



Fore limb 70 



Hind limb 170 



Tibia 58 



Foot 55 



Inner toe 14 



Inner metatarsal tubercle ga 



Hahitat. — Only the type-specimen having been obtained thus far, 

 we kno^^ nothing of the (Hstribution of this species beyond the fact 

 tliat it was collected by Hoist in Okinawa shima. 



List of specimens of Rana holsti. 



"Type; description, p. lOfi; fig. 84. 



RANA JAPONICA b (Guenther). 



Plate XI, fig. 1. 



1S38. Rana /frH/Joran'a Schlegel, Fauna .Tapon., Kept., pp. 109, 1,S9; Saur. et Batr. 

 pi. in, fig. 2 c (.Japan) (not of Linnseus).— -Bleeker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. 

 Nederland. Indie, XVI, 1858, p. 205 (Japan).— Martens, Preuss. Exped. 

 Ost-Asien, ZooL, I, 1866, p. Ill (Yokohama); 1876, p. 380 (Tokyo and 

 Yokohama).— HiLGENDORF, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1880, p. 119 

 (Tokyo). 



1858. Rana temporaria \ar. japonica Guenther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 17 

 (Ningpo and Chusan, China; Japan.) 



1860. Rana syhatica Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 500 (Simoda 

 Hondo) (not of Le Conte).— Camerano, Atti Accad. Torino, XIV, Pt. 5 

 Apr., 1879, p. 876 (Tokyo; Yokohama). 



1879. Rana japonica Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1879, p. 190 (Japan) 

 1886, p. 599 (Japan; China); Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 47 

 (Japan; Szechuen and Ningpo, China).— Boettger, Offenbach. Ver 

 Naturk. 26-28 Ber., 1888. p. 96 (Peking); Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg. 

 1892, p. 9 (Nikko and Yokohama, Japan; Dalanshan, near Ningpo 

 Da-dschiao-sy, near Peking, Lueshan, near Kiukiang, Lake Tahoo, near 

 Shanghai, China); Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 102 (Oho 



a Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, 1892, pp. 302-303. 



b Signifying Japanese. 



c Reproduced in thi.'? work on Plate XI, fig. 1. 



