RANA FASCIATA.— Boie. 
Reptilia. — Plate 78. — Fig. 1. — 1 a, b, c ( Female .) 
R. gracilis, extremitatibus posterioribus, digitis prrocipue, longissimis ; dorso latcribusque fascns longitu- 
dinalibus viridi-nigris sex notatis; plantis subpalinatis. 
Longitddo e nasi apice ad anum I unc. 10 lin., extremitatum posteriorum 4 nnc. 
Raua fasciata, Dum. and Bibr. Erpetologie Generale, tom. viii. page 389. 
Strougylopus fasciatus, Tschudi, Class Batrach, Mem. Societe Scienc. nat. Neucb, tom. ii. page ? J. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the back anteriorly light 
rusty wood-brown, the hinder parts of the back, the sides, and the outer and 
anterior portions of the fore legs, yellowish white or pale king’s-yellow. The 
variegations on the parts specified are liver-brown, and consist of a longi- 
tudinal stripe between the eye and the nose along the rostral canthus, a 
stripe along the upper lip, an irregular subovate blotch between the hinder 
extremity of the eye and the base of fore leg, including the tympanum, 
six longitudinal stripes on the back and sides, the two on the middle of the 
former which reach from the inside of the eyes to nearly the anus, much the 
longest; a stripe along the anterior part of leg close to the body, and two 
others, or a few spots only, on the parts towai'ds the toes. The dark rostral 
line and blotches behind the eye are separated from the labial stripe by a 
narrow, oblique, yellow line. The outer parts of the hinder extremities 
pale rusty oil-green, and the hinder part of the thighs light orange coloured 
brown ; toes pale sienna-yellow ; under part of head greenish white ; insides 
of extremities pale oil green. 
Form, &c. — Head subtriangular ; nose anteriorly rather blunt. Body 
long, rather slender, and very narrow immediately in front of the hinder 
extremities ; rostral canthus blunt, nostril midway between eye and apex of 
nose ; sides of head slightly inclined outwards, and convex above the edge of 
