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There is a strong dorsolateral glandular ridge on each side, and be- 

 tween these there are from six to eight narrow glandular folds not so 

 much broken up as in the R. a. cesop^ts, but readily becoming iudistinct 

 in alcohol. The dorsolateral fold extends nearly to the groin. Below 

 it the sides are crowded with longitudinal glandular folds, more or less 

 broken up. 



The first finger exceeds the second and equals the fourth. The internal 

 cuneiform tubercle is quite small, and has a free apex; no external 

 tubercle. The web is shorter than in the other subspecies, being scal- 

 loped nearly to the line of the base of the first phalange, which it only 

 margins for part of its length, ceasing near the distal end. 



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Fig. 105. Eana areolata circulosa. No. 278. Mus. Champaign, 111. ; \. 



Color in spirits, light brownish-yellow or straw-color, above and be- 

 low. The entire upper surface and sides are, however, so thickly covered 

 with large reddish- brown spots as to reduce the groundcolor to a net- 

 work, forming a pattern of numerous irregular or crenate circles. These 

 are in three rows between the dorsolateral ridges, which are of the light 

 ground color for most of their length. There are no light bands or 

 lines about the head, but the lores and upper lips arc closely and rather 

 coarsely marbled with brown and yellow. The lower lip is less distinctly 

 marked in the same way. At the orbits thercare three rows of large 

 spots like those of the back, the exterior ones on the eyelids. The fore 

 legs are marbled like the lores, with a faint suspicion of cross-bars. 

 The thigh, tibia, tarsus, and external toe are cross banded with such 

 wide brown bars, that the interspaces are very narrow and often inter- 

 rupted. There are three wide and two narrow bars on the thigh, and 

 no longitudinal markings; there are six bars across the tibia of differ- 

 ent widths, and three across the tarsus; inferior surfaces unspotted. 

 The lateral spots become more sparse and more widely spaced near to 

 the abdomen; thigh posteriorly with large brown spots, on a straw- 

 colored ground. 



