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of Orizaba; Oaxaca: Tehuantepec; and Tabasco: no specific locality. 

 For geographic reasons we consider the records from the latter three 

 states unacceptable. 



RANA MEGAPODA Taylor 



Rana viegapoda Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 28, 1942, pp. 310-313, pi. 28. 



Type— EUT-HMS No. 3280. 



Type locality. — Near Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. 



Range. — Jalisco, around Lake Chapala. 



RANA TARAHUMARAE Boulenger 



Rana tarahumarae Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 20, 1917, pp. 

 416-417.— Kellogg, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 160, 1932, pp. 190-191, 214-215. 



T2/2?e.— Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nos. 1914.1.28.148-149; 1911. 12.12.36- 

 39. 



Type locality. — loquiro (=Yoquivo) and Barranca del Cobre, 

 Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Range. — Western Texas to Sonora and southward to Jalisco. In 

 Mexico, known from Chihuahua: type localities, and Mojarachic, 

 Chihuahua; Sonora: El Tigre Mountain below El Tigre mine; Jalisco: 

 Oblatos. 



RANA CATESBEIANA Shaw 



Rana catesbeiana Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1802, p. 106, pi. 33. — Kellogg, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull 160, 1932, pp. 191, 195-197, figs. 21-23. 



Type. — Probably no preserved type. 



Type locality. — North America (restricted to South Carolina). 



Range. — In the United States, chiefly east of longitude 98° W., but 

 introduced widely elsewhere; northern Mexico. Reported from Nuevo 

 Leon: San Diego (near Cadereyta) ; Tamaulipas: Alidimirtii. Expected 

 in Sonora and elsewhere (introduced). 



STATE LISTS 



Compilation of state lists is beset with difficulties arisuig from 

 incorrect or dubious identifications of material not now available for 

 examination. In most vertebrate classes, casual records and descrip- 

 tions frequently suffice to allocate correctly erroneously identified 

 specimens, but in amphibians even lengthy descriptions are sometimes 

 insufiicient, if the proper comparisons are not made. More than in 

 any other vertebrate class, amphibians are identified, with exceptions 

 of course, on a comparative basis. Thus older workers, whose knowl- 

 edge of the Mexican fauna was far more incomplete than that of 

 present-day students, frequently could neither evaluate characters 

 properly nor describe them so that the specimens could later be 



