THE BATRACHIA OP NORTH AMERICA. 

 Bana palustris Le Conte. 



409 



Catalojrne 



No. of 



number. 



spec. 



3405 



9 



3412 



10 



3410 



1 



3411 



2 



340a 



1 



3407 



1 



3400 



1 



8345 



1 



3402 



4 



3409 



3 



3406 



1 



3401 



3 



9340 



6 



8905 



1 



5J53 



1 



34G0 



1 



3434 



1 



9388 



3 



3417 



1 



5921 



3 



9492 



1 



3328 



1 



13403 



1 



11499 



1 



Locality. 



"When col- 

 lected. 



From whom received. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Carlisle, Pa 



do 



Meadville, Pa 



Philadelphia, Pa 



Framiugham, Mass . 



Washington County, 

 Miss. 



Westporfc, ]Sr. T 



Kinston, JSr. C 



Saint Louis. Mo 



Root River, Wis 



Detroit River, Mich ... 

 Prairie Mer Rouge, La. 



Pearl River, Miss 



Hainijridge, Pa . 



Toledo, Ohio 



Tvree Spviiigs, Tenn .. 

 West Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Upper Wisconsin River 



Preston County, Va 



James Bav, N". B 



(?) : 



Quasqueton, Iowa 



Garrison's, N. Y 



(?) 



July — . 1853 

 Aug. — , 1853 



Apr. 12, 1877 



Prof. S. F. Baird . . . . 



.. do 



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J. H. Richard 



Prof. S. F. Bard.... 

 Col. B. L. C. Wailes . 



Prof. S.F. Baird 



J. W. Milner 



Dr. Geo. Engelmann. . 



Prof. S. F. Baird 



do 



Jas. Fairie 



]\Iis9 Helen Tunnison 



Dr. T. H. Beau 



J. B. Tromldv 



Prof. R. Owen 



W.S.Wood 



R. Kennicott. 



Prof. E. B. Andrews . . 



C.Drexler ... 



(?) 



E. C Bidwell 



T.Roose veldt 



(?) 



Alcoholic. 

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RANA AREOLATA Bd. & Gird. 



Proceed. Ac. Phila., 1852, p. 173; Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Rep- 

 tiles, p. 28, PI. 36, figs. 11-12; Bouleuger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 

 1882, p. 41. 



Headlargi; vomerine teeth opposite posterior edge of cboanae ; tym- 

 panic disk two-thirds the diameter of e^^e or less. A strong glandular 

 dorsolateral dermal fold on each side, and numerous shorter ones on the 

 back between them. First finger longer than s( cond. Three phalanges 

 of front toe free. Males with an external vocal vesicle. Heel of ex- 

 tended hind leg reaching only to eye. Palmation shoi t. Ground-color 

 light, with numerous rounded spots on the back and sides. Upper lips 

 spotted, not light or dark bordered above or on the margin. Hinder 

 legs with numerous brown crossbars. Lower surfaces unspotted. 



This well-marked species is related to the E. palustris, but is easily 

 distinguished. It presents three well-marked subsijecies, whose char- 

 acters I now give: 



Length of head to posterior edge of tympana three times in total; tympanic disk 

 round ; dorsal spots well separated ; nostril equidistant between end of muzzle 

 aud eye R.v. areolata. 



Length of head two and a half times in the total ; tympanic disk a vertical oval ; 

 dorsal spots well separated; nostril equidistant between end of muzzle and 

 eye B.v. wsppus. 



Length of head one-third of total ; tympanic disk variable ; dorsal spots so large as 

 to leave only circles of the light ground-color; nostril nearer eye thau end of 

 muzzle in the young , B.v. circiilosa. 



But few specimens of these subspecies have been as yet found, but 

 the characters presented in the above table will appear of importance 



