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NORTH AMERICAN BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA. 
Order RANIFORMIA. 
Family RANID^E. 
Genus Rana, Linn. 
Yomerine teeth present; external metatarsi webbed to the 
base; terminal phalanges elongated, acute, or slightly dilated 
at tip ; dorso-lateral dermal folds present or absent ; abdomen 
smooth. 
66. R. areolata , subsp. capito , LeConte. Above dark 
slate color, speckled with black; six rows of roundish spots on 
back, speckled and irregular^ marked with spots of same form 
and color on sides; beneath yellowish-white, spotted and varied 
with dusky; arms and legs -above gray, speckled and barred 
with black; beneath yellowish, especially at axillae and groins; 
spotted and varied with dusky; head very large, broad, and 
blunt; coarsely punctured above; a deep concavity between 
nostril and eye; a broad, cutaneous fold from orbits to beyond 
middle of body; a second from corner of mouth to shoulder; 
body above very rough ; posterior surface of thighs granulate ; 
fingers slightly palmate at base ; L. four and two-tenths inches ; 
width of head at corners of mouth, one and five-tenths; arm 
one and nine-tenths; leg four and seventy-five hundredths; 
femur one and one-tenth; tibia one and forty-five hundredths; 
foot two and two-tenths inches. Florida. 
Frof. Cope recognizes a second subspecies, R. areolata 
areolata, whose habitat is the Texan district, the following 
description of which is taken from the Mexican Boundary 
Survey: “Head very large, subelliptical; snout prominent, 
nostril situated half way between its tips and the anterior rim of 
eyes, which are proportionally large; tympanum spherical and 
of medium size; its central portion yellowish-white, whilst its 
periphery is black; body short and stout; limbs well developed ; 
fingers and toes very long, without being slender; ground color 
of body, and head yellowish-green, marked with brown ; besides 
there are thirty or forty brown areolae.” In our manuscript 
notes we had described a Rana from Benton Co., Indiana, as a 
new species. It differed so much from the description of R. * 
areolata areolata and R. areolata capito, that we felt justified in 
giving it a new name provisionally until other specimens could 
be obtained so as to decide more definitely its relationship, if 
there was any specific, with R. areolata. An abstract of the 
following description was published in the second edition of 
Jordan’s Manual of Vertebrata, under the name of R. circulosa. 
