134 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



dark brown; limbs crossbarred with dark brown and drab; upper 

 posterior aspect of femur mottled with the same colors; underside 

 pale russet, with a network of obscure whitish mottlin<^s. 



Vi I) tensions. 



mm. 



Total length, tip of snout to vent (approximately a) 115 



Width of head 40 



Distance between nostrils 10 



Distance between nostril and eye 8. 5 



Diameter of eye 12 



Diameter of tympanum 6 



Interorbital space fil 



Width of upper eyelid 9 



Fore leg a Gl 



Largest finger disk 4 



Hind leg, vent to tip of longest toe a 178 



Tibia 53 



Inner metatarsal tubercle 5.5 



Remarks. — This large species is easily recognized by its very peculiar 

 pattern of glandular pustules on the back, which is still more enhanced 

 by the coloration, emphasizing the odd arrangement which suggests 

 a map of the moon, only that there are no craters visible on the top 

 of the volcanoes. 



Habitat. — The only specimen thus far known is the type in the 

 Imperial Museum, Uyeno Park, Tokyo, which is said to have come 

 from Okinawa shima. 



List of specimens of Rana ishikawx. 



Museum. 



Imp. Mus. Tokyo. 



Sex 

 No. and 



Locality. 



(o) Okinawa shima . 



When col- 

 lected. 



By whom collectpd . 



oType; description, p. 132; figs. 111-116. 

 RANA NARINA b Stejneger. 



1901. Rana narina Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIV, Dec. 12, 1901, 

 p. 189 (type-locality, Okinawa shima, Riu Kiu; type, Sci. Coll. Mus. 

 Tokyo, No. 19a). 



Description of type specimen. — Adult; >Science College Museuni, 

 Tokyo, No. 19a; Okinawa shima (figs. 117-121). Vomerine teeth in 

 two distinct, nearly transverse series, which do not extend beyond a 

 line between the posterior margin of the choan^e; the distance between 

 the series a little less than between the latter and the choana?, which 

 are very large; head longer than wide; snout long, nearly squarish 



! \ ^ . 



a The specimen has the back very much bent and is so hardened that it can not be 

 stretched out to its normal length. For the same reason the legs can not be unbent 

 and their measurements are, therefore, also approximate only. 



6 Having reference to the nostrils, nares, on account of their extreme forward posi- 

 tion in this species. 



