BATBACHIA SALIENTIA. 17 



/3-^. Adult and half-grown. Sweden. Presented by Prof. Sun- 



devall. 

 €, ^. Adult. Bononia. Presented by J. J. Bianconi. In one of the 



specimens the tuberole on the metatarsus is blunt, as in i^^^ity- 



rhhius. 



B. Asiatic specimens. 

 Bana temporaria, var. japonica, ScMegel, I. e. 



T). Half-grown. Ningpo. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



0, I. Young : bad state. Chusan. Presented by the East India 



Company. 

 k-, \. Young : bad state. Chusan. 

 fj-i,. Adult. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 



C. American specimens. 



Kana silvatica, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, i. 

 p. 282 ; Harlan, inSiUim. Jouryi. xiv. p. 58, and in Jonrn. 

 Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. 338; Tsclmdi, Batr. p. 79; Diim. 

 (Sf Bihr. p. 362 ; Holhr. N. Amer. Herpetol. iv. pi. 24. 

 liana pennsylvanica, Harl. I. c. p. 60. — Tympanum gene- 

 rally, but not always, rather larger than in the European 

 specimens. 



o. Adult. North America. 



TT-s. Adult and half-grown. North America. Presented by Edward 

 Doubleday, Esq. 



T, V. Half-grown : bad state. North America. Presented by Dr. 

 J. Green. 



^, ■^. Adult. "Woods near Chekham. 



w. Some half-grown and young specimens. Great Bear Lake. Pre- 

 sented by Sir J. Richardson. 



aa-dd. Adult and young. North America. From Dr. Gardiner's 

 Collection. 



ee-gg. Adult. North America. 



17. Rana superciliaris. (Plate I. fig. B.) 



Snout much elongate, very acute ; inner nostiils small, much nearer 

 the interior prominence of the eye than the tij) of the snout ; tym- 

 panum nearly as large as the eye ; skin with long, strong longitu- 

 dinal folds ; upper eyehd with a small fold in front and another 

 deep one behind, the latter forming a free hinder edge. Toes not 

 webbed to the end, fourth one-third longer than the third ; meta- 

 tarsus with only one small tubercle. Vomerine teeth in two short 

 series, situated near the front edge of the inner nostril. 



a. Adult male. Sierra Leone. Two lateral exterior vocal sacs. 

 Length of cleft of mouth ^" ; length from the angle of mouth 

 to anus i" ; length of hinder leg ^\" . 



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