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Habit. — Malayan Peninsula. 

 Pondicherry, Bengal. 



The marbled appearance of the upper parts, described by M. M . 

 Dumeril and Bibron, does not exist during life, but is acquired when 

 the frog is immersed in alcohol. The species is apparently not nume- 

 rous. Of two the larger was of the following dimensions : 

 Length of the head, 0| inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 



Ditto ditto anterior extremity, If 



Ditto ditto posterior, 3| 



Rana bengalensis, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. is perhaps intended to 

 represent this species. 



Rana tigrina, Daudin. 



Syn. — Rana tigrina, Daudin. Hist. uat. Gren. &c. p. 64, PI. 20. 

 Rana mugiens, Daudin. 1. c. PI. 23. 



Rana mugiens, Latreille. Hist. Rept. F. 2, p. 153, Fig. 2. 

 La grenouille taureau, Cuvier, R. A., 1. Ed. 

 Rana tigrina, Menem. 

 Rana limnocharis, Boie, MS. 

 Rana cancrivora, Boie, MS. 

 Rana cancrivora, Gravenhorst. 

 Rana picta, Gravenhorst. 

 Rana brama, Lesson. 

 Rana rugnlosa, Wiegmann. 

 Rana vittigera, Wiegmann. 

 Rana cancrivora, Tschudi. 

 Rana tigrina, apud Dumeril and Bibron. 

 " Kodok, Katak, Lancha" of the Malays. 



Body and limbs above golden greyish-olive or brown, in some with 

 large rounded black spots, and with a yellow line from the muzzle 

 down the back, and a similar broad band from the side of the muzzle 

 to the loins. Beneath and on the innerside of the limbs white or 

 yellow, with or without black spots. Iris burnished golden, the lower 

 half sometimes black, pupil elliptical rhombic. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



Coromandel, Bengal, Assam, Tenasserim, Java, Sumatra, 

 Timor, Philippines, Canton Province. 



The species is excessively numerous in valleys and hills, after heavy 

 falls of rain, but adult individuals are of comparatively rare occurrence 



