710 AMPHIBIA — RANID^. 



Rana tbmporaria Linnaeus. 



Bana muta, Laurenti. 



Bana scotica, Bell. 



Bana oxyrMnua, et platyrhinus, Stebnstrup. 



Bana arvalis, NlLSSON. 



Bana japonica, Schlegel. 



Habitat, England, Scotland, Germany, and Sweden, to Japan. 



{American Specimens.') 



a. var. cantabeigensis Baird. 



Yellowish-brown above, with a lateral fold, and a vertebral line from snout to anns, 

 light colored ; posterior of thigh and leg with a narrow light line. 



Habitat, MaBsaohusetta to Kooky Mountains ; north of the Great Lakes. 



Not yet observed in Ohio. 



6. var. SYLTATICA LeConte. 



TVood Frog. 



Bana syluatica, LeConte, Holbrook, KiRtiand, Stoker, DbKat, Dumbril and Bib- 



ron,|Allen, Vkrekll. 

 Banaliyhatica, et permsylvani(ia,'lELAXLAK. 

 Bcmaliemporaria, var. ai/lvatioa, Gwnther, Jordan. 



Colorjabove green to greeniah-brown ; no vertebral band ; lateral cutaneous folds of 

 about the same color as the back ; u darlc spot passing through the tympanum, eye and 

 Kiaually^; also the nostril, margined below with white ; legs above usually barred or 

 tlotched with dark ; abdomen cream-colored to white ; golar region and under parts of 

 legsjyellowish ; lower jaw often with darker markings ; thighs granulated posteriorly ; 

 femur and tibia of nearly equal length, the latter somewhat longer ; toes and fingers 

 with tubercles under part of the joints ; head small ; muzzle obtusely rounded ; tym- 

 panum small, not exceeding three and a half millimeters in diameter ; nostrils a little nearer 

 the muzzle than the eye, and nearly as widely separated as the inner nares. 



The young differs from the adult by having the colors more intense, the back is 

 olivaceous brown, the spot on the temple blaek, and the under parts a msre pronounced 

 yellow. Length, 2 inches ; head to axilla, 9 lines ; hind legs, 3^ inches ; fore limb, l\ 

 inches ; transverse diameter of head, 9 lines ; vertical diameter of head, 4 lines ; trans- 

 verse diameter of body, 9 lines. 



Habitat, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, 

 to Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. 



The Wood Frog is very abundant in the woods of Ohio, where it is 

 found among damp fallen leaves, which it ressmbles so closely as to 

 be overlooked. They appear in March or April, and go into winter 

 quarters the last of October or forepart of November. They probably do 

 not resort to ponds but hybernate in woods, and in spring lay their eggs, 



