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BULLETIN 84, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Bana virescens hrachycejyhala Cope — Continued. 



Catalogue 



Xo of 



number. 



spec. 



4794 



2 



3325 



4 



9672 



1 



9382 



1 



14500 



4 



14501 



1 



3349 



8 



9753 



1 



3326 



1 



8373 



5 



9339 



1 



8378 



5 



9343 



2 



3418 



2 



9998 



1 



12585 



4 



11926 



2 



14173 



1 



3422 



6 



9738 



1 



9346 



1 



3320 



2 



5061 



1 



3361 



3 



3368 



1 



9459 



2 



11490 



7 



Locality. 



When col- 

 lected. 



From whom received. 



Naturo of 

 specimen. 



Nebraska. 



Fort Pierre, Nebr 



Camp Crittenden, Ariz. 



Lake Superior 



(?) 



Bedford, Iowa 



Upper Mississippi and 

 Yellowstone. 



Webster City, Iowa 



Fort Kipley, Miun 



Sebec Pond, Me 



South Fork 



Sebec Pond, Me 



Abiquiu, N. Mex 



Columbus, S. C 



Middletown, Conn 



John Day Elver, Oregon 



N. Boundary Survey.. 



Olney, 111 



Framingham, Mass . . . 

 Webster City, Iowa. . . 



Sand Hills, Nebr 



Fort Union, Dak 



South Pass 



Pole Creek, Nebr . . . - 



Platte River 



Head of Yellowstone. 

 N. W. Boundary 



Aug. — , 1874 



May — , 1878 

 Oct! ' 24^ l'873 



Dr. Geo. Suckley, U. S. A 



Dr. Evans 



J. H. Rutter 



R. Kennicott 



(?) 



Jordan & Meek 



Dr.F.V. Hayden........ 



Chas. Aldrich 



Dr. J. Head, U. S. A 



H. A. Leonard , 



Dr.F.V. Hayden , 



H. A. Leonard , 



Dr. O. Loew 



Prof. L. Lesquereux 



F.D.Shul 



Capt. Chas. Bendire, U. 

 S.A. 



Dr. E. Coues, U. S. A 



John and Chas. Walker . 



Prof. S. F. Baird 



Chas. A Idrich 



Dr. F. V. Hayden 



E. J. Denig 



C. McCarthy 



W.S.Wood 



do 



Lieut. F.V. Hayden 



Dr. E. Coues 



Alcoholic . 

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EANA PALUSTKIS Le Conte.* 



Bana palustris Lo Conte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. i, p. 282; Harlan, Sillim. Jonrn., x, p. 59, and 

 Journ., Ac. Phila., v, p. 339 ; Dum. & Bibr., p. 356 ; Holbr., N. Amer. Herp., iv. p. 

 95, PI. 23; De Kay, N. Y. Faun,, Eeptil. p. 62, PL 62. fig. 6; Le Conte, Proceed. 

 Ac. Phila., 1855, p. 424; Weid., Nova Acta Ac. Leop., xxxii, p. Ill; GUntb., 

 Cat., p. 14. 



Bana pardalis Harlan, Amer. Journ., x p. 50. 



This species approaches near to the subspecies hracliycepliala of the 

 Rana virescens^ although the distinction from the typical subspecies 

 can be readily perceived. In general it displays little variation of 

 characters, excepting in the length of the hind legs. Here about half 

 the specimens show a length which allows the heel to reach the end of 

 the muzzle, while in the other half it attains to different points from 

 the fiont of the orbit anteriorly (e. g. No. 3401). 



The muzzle is always more obtuse than in the B. virescens virescens, and 

 generally a little more so than in the B. v. brachycephala, but not always. 

 I describe a specimen from Garrison's, New York, as typical. Muzzle 

 flat above; rather truncate in profile, giving the head, when viewed from 

 above, a broadly obtuse acuminate outline. The nostril is a little nearer 

 the end of the muzzle than to the orbit. The tympanic disk is two- 

 thirds the diameter of the eye-fissure. The vomerine teeth are in trans- 

 verse patches between the nares, but the posterior edge line projects 

 behind that which connects the posterior edges of the choanie. The 

 ostia pharyngea are larger than the choanse. There are no external 



* Plate 57, fig. 3. 



