BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HAXDL. BAND. 20. AFD. IV. X:0 1. 17 



(Syst. nat.), wlio evidently must be considered to be auctor 



of the name. 



Total length (ef) 209, length of Ihe body (to tlie vent) 69 mm.P^'^^^'' 

 » » (cf^) 150, » » » 55 » I jar 



» » ($) 170, » » » 49 » 



Råna lactea. 



LinnJEus in Anioeii. acad. Toin. I, N:o XT, p. 285, N:o 8, Mtis. 

 Ad. Frid. I, p. 47. Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p, 213 (naraed Råna boans). 



There is in the museum a specimen, marked y^Bana^, on 

 a printed label, on wbich bas afterwards been written Jac- 

 tca. Probably the specimen is from Mus. Drottnh., though 

 (^uensel does not mention it in his catalogue. It is a true 

 Hyla lencophyllata Beiris. 



According to Lönnberg, LinnEeus's type for Bana lactea 

 in Amoen. acad. is a Hyla maxima (Laurenti), to which, of 

 course, the Linnean name must be given, as he in his 

 first and most important description intended this one. As 

 LinnjEus, however, in the lOtli edition of Systema Naturce 

 ehanges the name lactea to boans, I consider this latter name 

 to be maintained, while Hyla boans Daudin ought to receive 

 another name. 



Thus, according to my opinion, Hyla mcixima (Laurenti) 

 might be named Hyla boans L. and Hyla 6oaw5Daud., accor- 

 ding to the synonymy, given by Boulenger (Boul. cat. Batr. 

 sal. p. 360), Hyla albopunctata Spix, 



Length of the body 35 mm., of the femur 18 mm., of the tibia 

 20 mm., of the tarsus with the 4th toe 28 mm. 



Råna arborea. 



Liunaeus in Anioen. acad. Tom. I, N:o V, p. 135, N:o 20 and 

 N:o XI, p. 285, N:o 9; Famia suecica, Ed. I, p. 94, N:o 252, 3Ius. 

 Ad. Frid. I, p. 47; Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 213. 



Syn. in Bou]enger's Catalogue of the Batrachia salientia in British 

 Museum, London 1882, HyLn ai'borea L. 



Three specimens from Mus. Drottnh. 



From Linn8eus's statement in Systema Natiirce-. »Habitat 

 sub foliis arboruin Europie, Amcriccc we find that he with 

 liis Bana arborea does not only mean the common European 

 treefrog, but also some American species of that kind, and of 

 the three Linnean specimens, mentioned above,' two (kept in 

 the same jar) are Hyla punctata (Sciineider), the third seems 



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