186 BATRACHIA: SALIENTIA. —- XXVII. 
bb, Tympanum as large or larger than eye. 
529. R. clamitans Latreille. Green Frog. Green or brownish, 
brighter in front; generally with irregular small black spots; arms 
and legs blotched, yellowish or white below; tympanum large; 
glandular folds large; toes well webbed; first finger not extending 
beyond second ; tibia and femur equal, } body. L.3. E.U.S., 
in springs, etc. (Lat., calling.) (. clamata.) 
aa, Glandular folds on sides of back obsolete or nearly so; dark spots on back 
small; web of feet reaching tip of fourth toe. 
530, R. catesbeana Shaw. Buit-Froc. Greenish, of varying 
shades, with small faint dark spots above; head usually bright 
pale green; legs blotched; ear large; toes broadly webbed ; femur 
equal to tibia, not half body. L. 5 to 8. Largest of the frogs; in 
ponds and sluggish rivers, from Kansas E.; remarkable for its 
sonorous bass notes. (To Mark Catesby, who first figured the 
bull-frog.) 
530 b. R. virgatipes Cope. — No longitudinal glandular folds 
on back; tympanum equals eye; webs rather short, two phalanges 
of fourth toe free; vomerine teeth between inner nares; inter- 
ocular space 4 width of eyelid. Color above olive-brown with two 
light-brown longitudinal bands on each side, the inferior band 
bounded below by a wide band of black spots; limbs blotched with 
black. L. 60mm. Atlantic Co.N.J. (LZ. 8S.) (L. striped-foot.) 
For additional species, see Appendix. 
