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spots between the eyes, sometimes the upper surface of the snout also 
spotted. The largest female with a rosatre-white, broad (3 mm.) band from 
snout to vent. Beneath white. Upper lip edged with a dark-brown band, 
which is punctulated with white ; from end of snout through the nostril 
to the eye and behind the eye, in front, above and behind the tympanum 
to the arm some dark-brown spots, more or less confluent into an irre¬ 
gular band. Between the cantimi and labial band a more or less distinct 
white or bright-greyish stripe, connected with the fine white edge of the 
tympanum and extended to the arm. Tympanum all round edged with a 
fine white line, only on the upper edge interrupted with the dark-brown 
postorbital spot. Hind e» side of thighs black-and-white marbled. 
11. Leptodactylus ocellatus L. 
Rana ocellata Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, p. 211, n. 9. 
Rana pachypus Spix, Spec. Nov. Testűd, et Ranarum, 1824, p. 26, tab. II. 
%. 1 , 2 . 
’.Rana pachypus juvenilis var. 1. Spix, 1. c., p. 26, tab. Ill, fig. 2* (sec. 
spec. typ.). 
Leptodactylus ocellatus Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sai., 1882, p. 247; Werner, 
Jahresber. u. Abh. naturw. Ver. Magdeburg, 1894, p. 125. 
Rana octoplicata Werner, Zool. Anz., XVI, 1894, p. 83. 
One specimen, female, length 61 mm. from snout to vent. 
Interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid. Toes strongly 
fringed on each side. Between the two dorsolateral glandular fold four, 
outwards from these two folds on each side. Olive above with roundish 
dark spots, bisected through the longitudinal folds. Upper lip dark olive- 
grey, spotted with white; lover lip and sides of thè throat dark grey, with 
roundish white spots. Lower surface white. 
I 3. Leptodactylus caliginosus Gir. 
Leptodactylus caliginosus Girard, Proc. Ac. Pliilad., 1853, p. 422 ; Boulenger, 
Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 247 and Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XIII, 1894, p. 348. 
Cystignathus podicipinus Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1862, p. 156. 
Platymcmtis Petersii Steindachner, Verb, zool,-bot. Ges. Wien, 1864. pl 254, 
tab. XVI, fig. 2. 
Cystignathus ocellatus Steindachner, 1. c., p. 269, tab. XI, fig. 1, la— cl. 
* In the denomination of Spix’s figures stands beside « Rana pagypus juv.» 
erroneously the number i, it must be changed with 2. That this specimen belongs 
to Leptodactylus ocellatus , it is already stated by Peters (Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 
1872 [1873] p. 199). 
