22 NORTH AMERICAN BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA. 



Order RANIFOKMIA. 



Family KANID^. 

 Genus Rana, Linn. 



Vomerine teeth present; external metatarsi webbed to the 

 base; terminal phalanges elongated, acute, or slightly dilated 

 at tip; dorso-lateral dermal folds present or absent; abdomen 

 smooth, 



66. R. areolata., subsp. oapito., LeConte. Above dark 

 slate color, speckled with black; six rows of roundish spots on 

 back, speckled and irregularly marked with spots of same form 

 and color on sides; beneath yellowish-white, spotted and varied 

 with dusky; arms and legs above gray, speckled and barred 

 with black; beneath yellowish, especially at axillae and groins; 

 spotted and varied with dusky; head very large, broad, and 

 blunt; coarsely punctured above; a deep concavity between 

 nostril and eye; a broad, cutaneous fold from orbits to beyond 

 middle of body; a second from corner of mouth to shoulder; 

 body above very rough; posterior surface of thighs granulate; 

 fingers slightly palmate at base ; L. four and two-tenths inches ; 

 width of head at corners of mouth, one and five-tenths; arm 

 one and nine-tenths; leg four and seventy-five hundredths; 

 femur one and one-tenth; tibia one and forty-five hundredths; 

 foot two and two-tenths inches. Florida. 



Prof. Cope recognizes a second subspecies, li. areotata 

 areolata,, whose habitat is the Texan district, the following 

 description of which is taken from the Mexican Boundary 

 Survey: "Head very large, subelliptical; snout prominent, 

 nostril situated half way between its tips and the anterior rim of 

 eyes, which are proportionally large; tympanum spherical and 

 of medium size; its central portion yellowish-white, whilst its 

 periphery is black; body short and stont; limbs well developed ; 

 fingers and toes very long, without being slender; ground color 

 of body, and iiead 3'ellowish-green, marked with brown ; besides 

 there are thirty or forty brown areolae. " In our manuscript 

 notes we had described a E.ana from Benton Co., Indiana, as a 

 new species. It differed so much from the description of R. 

 areotata areotata and R. areotata capito., that we felt justified in 

 giving it a new name provisionally until other specimens could 

 be obtained so as to decide more definitely its relationship, if 

 there was any specific, with R. areotata. An abstract of the 

 following description was published in the second edition of 

 Jordan's Manual of Vertebrata, under the name oi R. clrcutosa. 



