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of Japan, 1907 (p. 144), and alters in no way the fact that the two 

 species mentioned are absohite nomina nuda and that the character 

 mentioned fitted no other " Hyla " then known than Hyla yalmata 

 Daudin. The first reference of the generic name Rhacophorus b^ 

 Schlegel, in 1827, to any described species, as well as the subsequent 

 action of Wagler ^^ and van der Hoeven ^* undoubtedly ties the name 

 ro H. folrnata as a synonym of Hyla. The first species belonging 

 to this genus, as now understood, was not given a nomenclatorial 

 status until after 1838. 



^ POLYPEDATES LEUCOMYSTAX MEGACEPHALUS (Hallowell) 



1858. Polypedates maculatus Guenther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 78- 

 (part: Hongkong, China; not of Gray). — Mueller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. 

 Basel, vol. 6, pt. 4, 1878, p. 585 (Lilong and Fumun, Kwantung).^ — Rha- 

 cophorus maculatus Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mi;s., 1882, p. 8'i- 

 (part).— Boettgeb, Offenbach. Ver. Natiirk., 24-25 Ber., 1S85. p. 131 

 (Swatow) ; 2&-28 Ber., 1888 (pp. 97, 1(K)). 



1860. Polypedates meyacephalus Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 18G0, p. 507 (type-locality, Hongkong, China). 



1878. Polypedates maculatus, var. unicolor Mueller, Verh. Natnrf. Ges^ 

 Basel, vol. 6, pt. 4, 1878, p. 585 (type-locality, China; type in Basel 

 Mus. ) . 



1889. Rhacophorus leucomystax Boulenger. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889,, 

 p. 29 (part; not of Gravenhorst) ; 1899, p. 169 (Kuatun, Fukien). — 

 Boettger, Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg., 1894, p. 137 (Hongkong). — 

 Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., vol. 22, pt. 2, 1903, p. 369. — 

 WoLSTERSTORFF, Abh. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 1, 1906, p. 125 (Kowlung Mt.,, 

 Hongkong) ; p. 126 (Canton). — Vogt, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde,. 

 Berlin, 1914, p. 101 (Kwantung). — Gee, .Tourn. N. China Asiat. Soc, 

 vol. 50, 1919 (p. 148) (Sooehow). — Polypedates leucomystax Stejneger,. 

 Herpet. Japan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 58, 1907, p. 157 (Formosa).— 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 3, Dec. 16, 1912, 

 p. 206 (Formosa). 



1911. Rhacophorus braueri Vogt, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin^ 

 1911, p. 180 (type-locality, Formosa; type in Berlin Mus.). 



A single specimen, collected by Sowerby at Foochow (No. 66405) 

 is so darkened and shriveled that nothing much can be said about 

 its identity, except that it belongs to P. leucomystax in the wider 

 sense. One color feature can be made out distinctly, namely the 

 coarse dark reticulation on the posterior aspect of the whitish femur 

 remarked upon by Boulenger ^^ as present in the other Fukien 

 specimen and also noticed by Boettger ^^ on a specimen from Swatow 

 and by Van Denbrugh in Formosan specimens.-^ In combination 



*« Syst. Amph., 1830, p. 200 and Isis, 1833. 



=^Handb. Dierk., vol. 2, pt. 2, 1833, p. 311. 



^ Proc. Zool. Soc. Ix)ndon, 1889, p. 169. 



2« Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 131. 



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