802 EANID.E. 



Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. (1837); Bell, Brit. Rept,, p. 84, fig. 

 (1839); Nilsson, Skand. Faun., Anif., p. 78 (1842); Bell, 

 Brit. Rept., 2nd ed., p. 89, fig. (1819); C. Koch, Ber. Senck. 

 Ges., 1872, p. 135; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii, p. 321 (1872) ; De 

 Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf., p. 64 (1874); Lessona, Atti 

 Ace. Lincei, Mem. CI. Sc. fis., i, 1877, p. 1068, pi. ii ; Bou- 

 lenger, Cat. Batr. Ecaud., p. 44 (1882), Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1886, p. 595, and Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 605, pi. xlv, fig. 3; 

 Sckarff, Irish Nat., ii, 1893, p. 1; Buulenger, Ann. Scott. N. 

 EL, 1893, p. 202; W. Evans, Proc. Phys. Soc. Edinb., xii, 

 1894, p. 509; Werner, Rept. Amph. Oesterr., p. 91 (1897). 



Rana atra, Bonnaterre, 1. c, p. 9. 



Rana alpina, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, p. 1058 (1789) ; Risso, Hist. 

 Nat. Eur. nierid., iii, p. 93 (1826); Bonaparte, op. cit. (1839). 



Rana fiaviventris, Millet, Faune Maine-et-Loire, ii, p. 663 (1828). 



Rana cruenta, Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. -As., iii, p. 12 (1831). 



Rana scotica, Bell, 1. c, p. 102. 



Rana platyrrhinus, Steenstrup, Amtl. Ber. 24. Vers. Naturf. Kiel, 

 1846, p. 131, and Vid. Meddel., 1869, p. 3, figs. ; Collin, 

 Naturh. Tidsskr. (3), vi, 1869, p. 299; Sahlertz, Vid. Meddel., 

 187], p. Ill; Collett, Vid. Selsk. Forh. Christ., 1878, No. 3, 



Rana temporaria, var. canigonica, Boubee, Bull. H. N. France, i, 

 1833, No. 2, p. 12. 



Rana fusca, Thomas, Ann. Sc. Nat. (4), iv, 1S55, p. 365 ; De l'lsle, 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. (5), xvii, 1873, No. 3, p. 2 ; Leydig. An. Batr., 

 p. 116 (1877) ; Collin de Plancy, Bull. Soc. Sc. Seinur. 1877, 

 p. 41; Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1879, p. 164, and 

 1880, p. 207 ; Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. Angers (2), 

 xiv, 1885, p. 119 ; Heron-Royer & Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., 

 ix, 1889, p. 260 ; Mehely, Beitr. Mon. Kronstadt, Herp., p. 56 

 (1892), and Math. Term. Kozl. Budapest, xxv, 1892, p. 8, 

 pis. i & iv; Douglass, Herp. Baden, p. 40 (1894). 



Rana temporaria, vars. obtusirostris, acutirostris, Fatio. 1. c. 



Rana dyboivslcii, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4), xvii, 1876, p. 387. 



Rana fusca honnorati, Heron-Royer, Bull. Ac. Belg. (3), i, 1881, 

 p. 139, pi. 



Rana fusca, var. longipes, F. Midler, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii, 

 1885, p. 670. 



Rana temporaria par vipalmata, Seoane, The Zool., 1885, p. 169, fig. 



Vomerine teeth in two feeble, oblique, narrow groups, 

 on a level with or just behind the posterior border of 

 the choanse. 



Head broader than long ; snout as long as or a 

 little shorter than the diameter of the orbit, usually 

 broadly rounded and scarcely projecting beyond the 

 mouth, rarel}' obtusely acuminate ; canthus rostralis 

 distinct ; loreal region feebly oblique, feebly grooved ; 

 nostril equally distant from the eye and the end of 

 the snout, or a little nearer the former; interorbital 



