EEPTILES. 45 



back ; all usually margined with lighter. A narrow white line from the eye to the arm. Beneath yellowish white. Inferior 

 face ef thigh plain. Tibia a little more than half the length of the body ; foot rather smaller. Head rather obtuse, scarcely 

 longer than broad. Web of hind foot extending to the penultimate articulation of the fourth toe. 



Fort Smith, Arkansas. 3270. Gypsum creek. Mollhausen. 3262. San Pedro, Texas. 

 Dr. Kennerly. 



RANA CATESBIANA, S h a w. Bull Frog. 



Rana catesbiana, SHAW, Gen. Zool. Ill, Amphibia, 1802, 106 ; pi. xxxiii. 

 Rana loans, LAOEP. Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip. 1798. 



Rana pipiens, HARLAN, Sill. Am Jour. X, 1825, 62. HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herpet. IV, 1842, 77 ; pi. xviii. (Not of 

 Linnaeus.) 



Fort Smith, Arkansas. Dr. Shumard. 3336. Shawnee village. H. B. Mollhausen. 

 3319. San Antonio. Dr. Kennerly. 



KANA CLAMITANS, Daud. 



Eana clamitans, DAUDIN, in Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Rept. II, 1802, 157. HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herp. IV 



1842, 85 ; pi. xx. 



Rana damata, DAUDIN, Hist. Nat. Kept. VIII, 1803, 104. DOM. BIB. Erp. Gen. VIII, 1841, 373. 

 Rana fontinalis, LECONTE, Ann. N. Y. Lye. I, 1825, 281. HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herp. IV, 1842, 87 ; pi. xxi. 

 Ranaria melanota, RAFINESQUE, Annals of Nature, 1820, No. 25. 

 Rana flavoviridis, HARLAN, Sill. Am. Jour. X, 1825, 58. 



Rana horiconensis, HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herp. 1st ed. Ill, 1838, 91 ; pi. xviii. 

 Rana nigricans, AGASSIZ, Lake Superior, 1850, 379; pi. vi, figs. 4,5. 



Fort Smith, Arkansas. Lieutenant Whipple. 



EANA HALECINA, Kalm. 



Rana halecina, KALM. DAUDIN, Hist. Nat. Rept. VIII, 1803, 122. HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herp. IV, 1842, 91 ; pi. xci. 



Rana pipiens, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. 1788, 1052. 



Rana utricularis, HARLAN, in Silliman s Journal, X, 1825, 60. 



3323. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Dr. Shumard. 



KANA BEKLANDIERI, Baird. 



Rana berlandieri, BAIRD, Rep. Mex. Bound. Survey, II, 1859, Reptiles, 27 ; pi. xxxvi. 



SPEC. CHAR. Size large. Body stout, robust. Eye distant not quite one and a half times its diameter from tip of snout, 

 and contained two and two-third times in the length of jaw from rictus. Tympanum two-thirds the diameter of the eye. A 

 vocal vesicle on each side of the head. A glandular fold on each side the jaw, and another broad and depressed on each side 

 of the body. Between these is one pair of ridges along the coccyx ; several pairs more interrupted anterior to it. Skin 

 corrugated and irregular,, quite pustular in some specimens. Feet webbed from the bulb of the toes ; web excavated on the inner 

 edges ; last joint of longest toe free. Femur about half the length of body, shorter than the tibia. 



Color above greenish olive, with distant sub-circular blotches of darker, scarcely areolated in the preserved specimens. 

 Beneath yellowish white, with brown inottlings on the throat. An indistinct whitish line on the side of the head, especially in 

 the young ; the lateral ridge bronzed. 



San Antonio to Fort Inge. Dr. Kennerly. 



NECTURUS LATERALIS, Baird. 



Triton lateralis, SAY, Long s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 5. 



Menobranchus lateralis, HARLAN, Ann. N. Y. Lye. I, 1825,^221. HOLBROOK, N. Am. Herp. Ill, 1842, 119; pi. xxx. 



4058. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Dr. Shumard. 



