June 5, 1923 Vol. VIII, it. 81-83 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



THE REAPPEARANCE OF BATRACHYLA LONGIPES 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



In 1859 Baird figured on plate 37 of the Mexican Boundary 

 Survey a frog which he called in the list of plates Batrachyla 

 longipes. No description was given and the locality there cited 

 was simply " Mexico." Later, on the occasion of another 

 purely nominal mention, the capture was reported to have been 

 made 40 leagues [about 120 miles] north of Mexico City (Cope, 

 Bull., U. S. Nat. Mus., 32, 1887, p. 16), and Cope even added 

 the number of the specimen, viz., 3207. On the National Mu- 

 seum register this entry indicates a Cnemidophorus, the locality 

 being as cited. No. 32S7, however, was assigned to a il Hyla, ,> 

 from the same locality again, and this probably was indeed our 

 specimen, but it is no longer to be found. Cope habitually cut 

 the tags from specimens which he proposed to figure, and very 

 many thus lost their identity forever. The type is not now in 

 the United States National Museum and Dr. Stejneger says 

 that there is no record that it ever was catalogued, nor is it to 

 be found in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 

 Philadelphia, nor entered in its register. There is, nevertheless, 



