. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 155 POLYPEDATES JAPONICUS (Hallowell;. 1860. japonicus Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 501 (type-locality, Oshima, northern Riu Kius; type, No. 7313; Stimpson, col- lector).—Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 66 (Okinawa shima).— Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 865; author's separate, p. 16. 1886. Rana macro-pus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 188G, p. 414 (su'osti- tute name; "Oho shima"); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, Oct., 1892, p. 302 (Okinawa; Hoist, collector).—Fritze


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 155 POLYPEDATES JAPONICUS (Hallowell;. 1860. japonicus Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 501 (type-locality, Oshima, northern Riu Kius; type, No. 7313; Stimpson, col- lector).—Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 66 (Okinawa shima).— Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 865; author's separate, p. 16. 1886. Rana macro-pus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 188G, p. 414 (su'osti- tute name; "Oho shima"); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, Oct., 1892, p. 302 (Okinawa; Hoist, collector).—Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., Vll, 1894, p. 865; author's separate, p. 16.—Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 103 ("Ohoshima or ;) I have convinced myself by a careful dissection of the fingers of oive of Hallowell's cotypes of Ixalus japonicus that there is an intercalated bone between the penultimate and the ultimate phalanges, and this species, therefore, belongs to the genus Polypedates and not to Rana. This arrangement of tlie tip of the digits is also quite easily 148 150. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.


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