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5. Rana laticeps, Blgr. 



Rana laticeps, Blgr., Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 20, pi. i, fig. 1 ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S., 1896, p. 897, and P. Z. S. } 1899, p. 888. 



The frogs which Dr. Hanitsch recorded (Rep. Raffles Library and 

 Museum, 1898) from Gunong Kledang, Porak, as this species are not 

 R. laticeps but R. hascheana. 



The claim of R. laticeps to a place on the Peninsula list depends 

 therefore on a single specimen in the British Museum from Malacca 

 (Mr. flervey) and on Captain Flower's not quite positive identification of 

 a specimen in bad condition in the Raffles Museum from the same locality. 



Distribution. — Khassya, Bengal, Malay Peninsula. 



6. Rana macrodon, Kuhl. 



Rana macrodon, S. S. Flower, P. Z. $., 1899, p. 888 ; Laidlaw, 

 P. Z. S., 1900, p. 885. 



Common and widely distributed in the Peninsula, being found from 

 sea-level up to 4,000 feet on the hills. Captain Flower calls Bufo 

 asper, " the grandest Batrachian inhabiting the Peninsula," but I never 

 saw one approaching really tine examples of Rana macrodon in size. 

 One cf these frogs which I obtained at Kuala Lumpur in January 

 1899 measured exactly 9 inches from snout to vent, and there is a 

 specimen in the Raffles Museum measuring 9^ inches. The coloration 

 of this species is extremely variable, especially in the young. On the 

 Larut Hills, at 4,000 feet elevation, where they ran to about 6 inches 

 in length, a uniform yellowish clay-colour was usual ; some examples 

 had a pale vertebral stripe, and some were ornamented with a few 

 small orange-red spots upon the back. The 9-inch monsters from 

 jungle-pools in the low-country are very dark olive-brown above, 

 with a strong bluish gloss ; beneath yellowish white. A bright brown- 

 ish-red variety is common in Singapore, and has been figured by 

 Captain Flower, P. Z. S., 1896, PI. XLY. 



Distribution. — " Upper Burma, Tennasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sipora 

 (Mentawei Islands), Java, Lombok, Flores, Natunas, Borneo, Phillip- 

 pines " (Flower). 



7. Rana plicatella, Stol. 



Rana plicatella, Stol., S. A. S. B. 1873, p. 116, pi. xi., fig, 1 ; 

 Blgr., Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 26 ; S. S. Flower, P. Z. S., 1899, p. 890; 

 Laidlaw, P. Z. S., 1900, p. 885. 



Originally described by Stoliczka from a spirit specimen from 

 Penan g or Province Wellesley ; Flower obtained an adult male in 



