108 ANGUS FROG. 



extraordinary inaccuracy, he has confounded two 

 widely different species together, in which he ap- 

 pears to have been followed by the Count de Ce- 

 pecle. In the Ginelinian edition of the Systema 

 Naturae the trivial name of ocdlata is retained. 



ARGUS FROG. 



Rana Ocellata. JR. pedibus pentadactylls Jissis, digifis subtus tu- 

 berculatis, dor so fascia to, Inter ibus ocel/atis. 



Frog with pentaclactyle umvebbed feet, toes tubcrculatcd be- 

 neath, back fasciatcd, and sides ocellated. 



Rana Ocellata. Jl. aur'ibus ocdlatis, pedibus muticis? Lin. Syst. 

 Naf. p. 356. Mitx. Ad. Fr. 2. p. 39. 



Rana maxima Virginiana, &c. Seb. 1. p. 119. t. 75. Jig. 1. 



Rana pentadactyla. R. pedibus omnibus fasdatis pentadactylis, 

 corpore Tenuloso; macu/is donalibus transversis, lateralibits ocel- 

 latis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1052. 



THE present large and highly elegant species, 

 which M 7 as first figured in the work of Seba, ap- 

 pears clearly, from the description given in the 

 Musceum Adolphi Frhterici, to be the real Rana 

 occdtAta of Linnccus ; though, from the extreme 

 brevity of the specific character in the Systema 

 Nature, accompanied by an erroneous reference 

 to a figure in Catesby, most readers have sup- 

 posed the Bull Frog of that author to have been 

 the animal intended. 



The Argus Frog is a native of several parts of 

 North America, being found in Pensylvania, Ca- 

 rolina, &c. &c. residing, like most others, in moist 

 situations, and in the neighbourhood of springs 



