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16,3 Taylor: Philippine Amphibia 251 
Variation.—No great amount of variation is observable. In 
certain specimens the eyelid is slightly wider than the inter- 
orbital region; in other specimens the belly and the underside of 
the limbs are distinctly marked with dusky spots. The longitu- 
dinal arrangement of the brown color on the legs is apparently 
invariable. 
Remarks.—This frog, which I failed to find in Mindanao, was 
incredibly numerous in central Negros. In the rice fields, where 
they spawn, the young appear in countless numbers during the 
latter part of the rainy season. When the dry season begins 
they collect around pools. My collector brought in more than a 
hundred specimens taken from a shallow disused well near Hini- 
garan, Occidental Negros. Only a few of these were preserved. 
The species is known in the Philippines from Negros and, 
according to Fischer, from southern Mindanao. It is widely 
distributed and is known from Celebes and Borneo, through 
Sumatra and Java, to the mainland of southeastern Asia. The 
distribution in the Philippines would appear to be localized. It 
has not been discovered in Palawan, and careful search has failed 
to reveal it in Sulu. 
Rana mearnsi Stejneger. Plate 4, fig. 4. 
Rana mearnsi STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 28 (1905) 343. 
Description of species.—(From No. 855, E. H. Taylor col- 
lection; collected on Canlaon Volcano, Negros, P. I., at an ele- 
FUG. 2 Rana mearnsi Stejneger. a, side of head; b, top of head; ¢, scserds d, foot. X1- 
vation of about 900 meters, December 24, 1915, by E. H. Taylor.) 
Vomerine teeth in two short, somewhat oblique, well-defined 
