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larger spotted Viresceiis iu 8501, 3295, 9347, and 3336. In 4548, from 

 Mexico, the uose is acute as iu B. v. virescens. 



This species has the widest rauge of any North American frog. It is 

 found from the Atlantic coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and 

 from Athabasca Lake, in the north, to Guatemala inclusive to the south. 

 It does not occur on the Pacific coast. The common Mexican form E. 

 2\ austricola Cope has been misnamed B. lecontei by most modern writ- 

 ers. The latter name belongs to the B. draytoai. 



Mr. Garmau has in the bulletin of the Essex Institute called atten- 

 tion to the fact that the name B. Jialeclna, by which this species is gen- 

 erally known, which is supposed to have been given by Kalm, does not 

 occur in the writings of that author, who really calls it B. virescens. In 

 a letter to me he states the case as follows. He begins with a quotation 

 from Kalm: 



En Eesa til Norra A uerica, iii, 1761, p. 46. Deras farg ar smutsig gr6a, strodd bar 

 och dar med brimaktiga flackar. * * * 



Detordo kuuua kallas : Eaua virescens plantis tetradactylis fissis, palmis penta- 

 dactylis semipalmatis, macula depressa fusca pone oculum. 



The paragraph from which the above is quoted begins with " Sill- 

 h3.ppetassor kallades har af de Svenskaen art af grodor," etc. The name 

 Bana lielecma does not occur in the text. The first appearance of this 

 name that occurs tome is in '-Der Naturforscher," xvin, 1782, p. 185. 



Schreber here figures the species, on Plate iv, so well, there can be no 

 mistake. Ho refers to the synonymy as follows : 



Dev FiTpfrosch, Bana pqyiens, S. Tab. iv. Bana aqiiatica. Catesb., Carolin.,2, t^. 

 70, tab. 70. Klein., Quadrup., p. 119. 



Eana viresceus, plantis (muss beissen : palmis) tetradactylis fissis, palmis (muss 

 beissen: plantis), pentadactj'lis semipalmatis; macula depressa fusca pone oculum. 

 Kalm Eesa til Norra America, torn. 3, p. 46. 



Bana Jialecina, Sill-boppetossor, Kalm, /. c, p. 4.5. 



Where Schreber gets his Bana halecina from Kalm, I do not know. 

 It is not in the Eesa of Halle, 1753-1761. We do not find it in the 

 translation by Forster, 1772, in English. Possibly it may occur in the 

 translation by Murray, Gottingen, 1754-'64, Beschreibung der Reise, 

 etc., which is not at hand. 



Bana virescens spJienocephala Cope. 



Bana oxyrhyncha Hallow. Proceed. Ac. Pbila. (1856), p. 14?, Not of Sundevall. 



The typical forma of this species come from Georgia and Florida. 

 These look like a different species from that which is found throughout 

 the interior of the continent, and represent the B. oxyrhyncha ol' Hal- 

 lowell. I describe a specimen from the former State. 



Viewed from above, the muzzle is elongate and acuminate, and the 

 narrow apex is rounded and projects well beyond the lower jaw. The 

 nostril is at a point halfway between it iind the anterior border of 

 the orbit, The canthus rostrales are well within the plane of the lipSj 



