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inferior and posterior margin of the seventh supralabial plate ; under parts 

 yellow, the posterior margin of each scute bordered with black 128 ab. scut. 

 1 bifid praenal; 78 urostega. 



Dimensions. Length of head 9 lines; greatest breadth 5J ; length of body 1 

 foot 2\ inches ; of tail 6 inches, 8 lines. Total length 1 foot, 9 inches, 8 lines. 



Habitat. Island of Hong Kong, May, 1 854, by Mr. Brooke. The specimen of 

 the expedition having been somewhat injured, the above description was taken 

 from a larger specimen in the collection of the Academy, which is stated to have 

 been captured in Canton River. 



Opisthoglyphes D. & B. 



Platyrhiniens. 



Homalopsis Kuhl. 



? Homalopsis buccatus Fitzinger. D. & B., torn. vii.,p. 968. One specimen, 

 caught on the Island of Hong Kong, May, 1854, by Mr. Brooke. 



Proteroglyphes. 



Xaja haji. One specimen, caught among stones on the shore Of Hong Koi . 

 Harbor. May, 1854. 



B ATRAC III A. 



RANID^E. 

 Rana tigrina Daud. 

 Syn. Rana rugulosa Weig., Nov. Act., torn, xvii., p. 258, tab. 21, fig. 2. 



Rana tigrina Daud. Hist. Nat. des Grenouilles des Rainettes et des Cra- 



pauds, p. 864, pi. xx. 

 Rana limnocharis Boie., MS. 

 Rana Cancrivora D. 



Rana vittigera Weig., Nov. Act., vol. xviii , tab. 21, fig, 1. 

 Rana mugiens Daud., pi. xvii. 



Rana brama Lesson, Belanger, Voy. aux Indes Orientales, pi. vi. 

 Spec. char. General appearance very much like that of Rana rug o s a, Schleg I 

 but it wants the vocal vesicles, and the longitudinal folds on either side of the 

 back ; head large, rather narrow in front ; an oblique fold extending from the 

 eye to the shoulder, with small vomerine teeth in two large patches situated very 

 obliquely; tongae long, bitid posteriorly ; tympanum very distinct ; extremities 

 robust ; a longitudinal glandular band running across the frenal region, which 

 is excavated, and passing under the eye; an oblique fold extending from 

 the eye to near the shoulder ; color dark brown above, dark spotted, with 

 numerous elevated longitudinal ridges upon the back, placed irregularly ; upper 

 jaw spotted with black ; thighs marbled posteriorly with black, upon a yellow 

 ground; legs tarsi, and* under part of feet banded with black ; skir. not smooth 

 but warty; the trails on the posterior part of the body largely developed; 

 under parts yellow, the chin slightly marbled with black. 



Dimensions. Length of head 1 inch 4 lines ; breadth 1 inch three lines : 

 length of head and body 3 inches ; length of arm 6 lines ; of forearm 6; of hand 

 to extremity of longest finger 7 lines ; of thigh 1 inch 4 lines; of leg 1 inch 4} 

 lines, of feet to extremity of longest toe 1 inch 4J lines, 



Habitat. Hong Kong; bought in the market of that place, Sept., 1854, by 

 Wm. Stimpson. 



Rana trivittata nob. 

 Spec. char. Head triangular, snout rather acute, palatine teeth but slightly 

 developed, in two converging rows, their posterior extremities wide apart ; 

 tongue pyriform, deeply notched behind ; body and extremities slender ; color 

 brownish, dark spotted, with three longitudinal white lines extending the whole 

 length of the head and body commencing at the snout, the two exterior passing 



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