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RANA HORICONENSIS.—Holbrook. 
Plate XIX. 
Cuaracters. Head large, snout rather poited, upper lip light bronze, with 
dark bars, above this is an irregular, indistinct, clouded white band under the 
tympanum to the shoulder; body very robust, dark olive, with irregular black 
spots, and a cutaneous fold on each side. Length, 32 inches. 
Description. The head is large, broad, with the snout rather pointed, the 
whole dusky green above. The mouth is very large, and the interval between the 
palatine teeth considerable. ‘The nostrils are lateral, and nearer the snout than 
the orbits. The eyes are very large, prominent, and beautiful, with the pupil 
black and the iris golden, reticulated with black. The tympanum is large, 
bronzed, with a lighter spot in its centre. The upper lip is ight bronze colour, 
with dusky bars; above this is an indistinct band of bluish-white, interspersed with 
black spots, which extends from near the snout, under the orbit and tympanum, to 
the shoulder. The lower jaw, chin, and throat, are white. The body is very 
robust, dark olive, interspersed with irregular black spots, with an elevated 
cutaneous fold on each side, of lighter colour, from the orbit to the posterior 
extremities; the abdomen is silver-white. 
The anterior extremities are stout, dusky above and white below; there are four 
fingers, distinct, thick, dusky above and below. The posterior extremities are 
greatly developed, dark olive above, marked with transverse black bars. ‘The 
anterior part of the under surface of the thighs is smooth and silver-white, the 
posterior is granulated and flesh-coloured; there are five toes, long, and very fully 
palmated to the tips, dusky above and below. 
