18 L. a. ANDERSSON, CATAL. OF LINNEAN TYPE-SPECIMENS OF REPTILIA. 



to me to be Hyla inframaculata Boul. (Boul. Cat. Batr. p. 354), 

 or some other species, belonging to tlie same American group 

 of the genus Hyla. All three specimens thus are from Ame- 

 rica, and Linnfeus says also that his type comes from this 

 part of the world. Even in Amoen. Acad. (Museum Princi- 

 pis) the type seems to have been an American species (See 

 Lönnberg loc. cit., p. 13), but this fact does not cause any 

 change of the j)resent name, as the Linnean name might in 

 preference be retained for the European treefrog, which spe- 

 cies Linn?eus first of all meant with his Råna arhorea. 



Measurements of the three speciraens, viz. H. inframaculata? and 

 the two H. punctata: Length of the body 52, 36, 34 mm., of the fe- 

 mur 23, 17,5, 17 mm., of the tibia 26,5, 17,5, 18 mm., of the tarsns 

 with the 4th toe 31, 24, 24 mm. 



Råna marginata. 



Linnajus in Mus. Ad. Frid. /., p. 47. Syst. Nnt. Ed. X, p. 212. 



There is one specimen from Mus. Drottnh., labeled ^»Rana 

 marginatay>. 



From Linn8e.us's short description in Mus. Ad. Frid., 

 without iigure and references to other figures, it is impos- 

 sible to say which present species he meant. Some of the 

 old authors (Schneider and others) declare this form to be a 

 Bufo-species, whereas Daudin pronounces it as being syno- 

 nymous to his Råna typhonia, which is the present Lepto- 

 dactylus typhonius (Daud.). Boulenger does not record it in 

 his catalogue. I am now able to prove that it is a Bufo 

 species, and I also believe that it is a Bufo molitor Tschudi. 



>;The pinched, angulate, narrow snout, the strong supra- 

 tympanic ridge», »the elongate, triangulär, narrow paratoid, 

 continued into a lateral dermal fold, and »haif the femur in- 

 cluded in the skin of the body> seem to me to prove that 

 Bufo molitor Tschudi and Bufo andianus Cope^ are identical 

 with Linnpeus's Råna marginata, wherefore this form might 

 be called by the Linnsean name: Bufo marginatus (L.). 



Length of the body 51 mm., femur 19,5, tibia 20,5, tarsus with 

 4th toe 18 mm. 



^ Boidenger, Cat. of Batr. sal. p. 315; Cope, An Examination of the 

 Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the 

 Upper Amazon, in Proc. of the Academy of Nat. Se. of Philadelphia. T. 20. 

 1868. (p. 116). 



