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tympanum like a string of pearls, as well as three large glandular 

 warts behind the corner of the mouth; from the posterior angle of 

 the eye a somewhat indistinct dorso-lateral fold, which on the shoulder 

 seems broken up into a series of shorter longitudinal glands; under- 

 side smooth, except posterior aspect of femur, which is granular. 

 Color (in alcohol) dark chocolate brown, apparently nearly uniform, 

 the dorso-lateral ft)lds and upper side of limbs paler, more ciima- 

 mon; a whitish line under eye and on posterior part of upper lip, 

 which is mottled with brown along the edge; flanks pale brownish, 

 with irregular blackish spots; legs cross-barred with dark brown and 

 upper posterior aspect of femur mottled with the same color; under- 

 side whitish, with very faint brown mottlings on throat, chest, and 

 hind legs. 



Dimensions. 



mm. 



Total length , tip of snout to vent 68 



Width of head 23 



Distance between nostrils 7 



Distance between nostril and eye 5 



Diameter of eye 9 



Diameter of tympanum 4.5 



Interor-bital space 5 



Fore leg 44 



Largest finger disk 2 



Hind leg, vent to tip of longest toe 118 



Tibia 38 



Inner metatarsal tubercle 2. 25 



Habitaf. — Thus far this species is only known from Okinawa shima, 

 where the type specimen was collected. 



List of specimens of Rana ijimsc. 



Museum. 



Sei. Coll. Tokyo. 



No. 



Age. 



Adult 1 



Locality 



Tanahiniura, Okinawa slii- 



When col- 

 lected. 



By whom collected. 



oType; description, p. 121; figs. 99-103. 



RANA RUGOSA" Schlegel. 



Plate X, figs. 2-4. 



1838. Rana nigosa Schlegel, Fauna .Tapon., Rept., p. 110, Sauri et Batr., pi. in, 

 figs. 3, 4b (type-locality, Japan, probably Nagasaki; types, Leiden Mu- 

 seum No. 2064; von Siebold, collector). — Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. 

 Gen., VIII, 1841, p. 368 (Japan).— Guenther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 

 1858, p. 11 (Japan). — Bleeker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederland Indie, XVI, 

 1858, p. 204 (Japan).— Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 499 (part: 

 Simoda). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool.,I, 1866, p. Ill (Yo- 

 kohama); 1876, p. 384 (Nagasaki). — Camerano, Atti. Accad. Torino, XIV, 



o Latin, signifying wrinkled. b Reproduced in this work on Plate X, figs. 2-4. 



