ARGUS FROG. 109 



and rivulets. It is one of the largest animals of 

 the genus, equalling, if not exceeding, the Bull 

 Frog in the size of its body, while the limbs are 

 thicker and stouter in proportion. Its colour is a 

 pale reddish brown, with two distinctly marked 

 whitish elevated lines running down the middle of 

 the back, at a considerable distance from each 

 other ; the intervening space being marked by se- 

 veral broad fasciae of a reddish chesnut colour, 

 while the sides are beautifully ornamented with 

 several truh^ ocellated or eye-shaped spots of the 

 same colour, each being half surrounded by an 

 iris-like paler space or crescent. The limbs are 

 elegantly banded with chesnut coloured stripes. 

 The under parts are pale or whitish. The feet are 

 linwebbed, and are all divided into five toes, each 

 joint being furnished beneath with a kind of tu- 

 bercle or process. 



When we consider the wide difference in the 

 form of the feet between this and the Bull Frog 

 (in which the hind feet are perhaps more widely 

 palmated than in any other animal of the genus), 

 it appears altogether astonishing that the Count 

 de Cepede, in his History of Oviparous Quadru- 

 peds, should have considered them as the same 

 species. 



In the British Museum are preserved specimens 

 of the Argus Frog, in which, though much faded 

 by length of time, the pattern of the spots may 

 still be pretty distinctly traced. In its general 

 manners this animal is supposed to resemble the 

 Bull Frog. 



