314 EANIDiE. 



from tbe Italian peninsula, and to the east of the 

 Adriatic it has not been recorded from further south 

 than the mountains of Bosnia. In Transylvania its 

 occurrence is restricted to the hills and mountains, 

 its place being taken in the plains by R. awaits and 

 R. agills. It is found not only all over Great Britain, 

 but also in Ireland, where it is much more common 

 on the west than on the east coast, and flourishes in 

 the mountains. Its range in Asia is an extensive one, 

 stretching from the northern and middle Oural and 

 the Kirghiz steppes to the Stannovoi Mountains, 

 Sachalien Island, Mongolia, Manchuria, and Yesso, 

 being replaced further south in Eastern Asia by Rana 

 amurensis, R. martensii, and R. japonica. 



The male and two females figured on PI. XX are 

 from the environs of London, and give some idea of 

 the great amount of individual variation in coloration 

 to be observed in this species. Other variations in the 

 markings are represented on PI. XXI. Fig. 1 repre- 

 sents a male from Dunphail, Moraj^shire, presented 

 by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, remarkable for its 

 unusually short snout and its well-marked light 

 vertebral stripe, similar to that of the so-called var. 

 striata of Rana arvalis. Fig. 2 is taken from a young 

 specimen from Hanover, presented by the late Dr. 

 J. E. Gray. Fig. 3 from a female with remarkably 

 pointed snout, sent from Breslau by Prof. G. Born ; 

 a var. acutirostris, Fatio, has been founded on such 

 specimens, which appear to have occasionally given 

 rise to erroneous reports on the occurrence of R. agilis 

 in Germany. Fig. 4 from one of the types of Seoane's 

 var. parvvpalmata from Galicia, Spain. 



